----- Original Message ----- From: "Ma Be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: March 17, 2002 13:03 Subject: [USMA:18835] Re: Short unit names
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:41:57 > Jim Elwell wrote: > >At 02:38 PM 3 March 2002 -0800, Madan wrote: > >>As for 'inch' vs 'centimeter', people are free to use > >>'cm' instead which is much shorter and also universal. > > > >Those who live in all-metric countries: have people come up with a verbal > >shorthand for saying "centimeter" or for saying "milliliter"? (Similar to > >"kilo" for kilogram.) > > I can't speak on behalf of other metric countries, but I strongly suspect that the situation is similar to it in SA. Besides, actually, I guess I've already commented on this before, but for the benefit of those who weren't here I'll just reiterate it again. > > Metric users do not have the habit of creating shortcuts for measurement values. We simply use it as is, i.e. cm is centimeter, mm is millimeter, etc. It seems to me that this is more of a cultural phenomenon in the US that sees the need to inundate us with thousands and thousands of acronyms for everything... ;-) > > Marcus > You mean like "click" or "klick" instead of kilometre.
