2002-07-02 I didn't get the same interpretation as you did. Even though he wrote that "everyone on the street understands metrics", etc, etc., he "explained" that in his opinion this was a result of the large foreign population. Almost as if he is saying the descendants of the earlier immigrants who grew up with FFU are being overwhelmed with metric. That he and others like him are being spoken to in metric by the intelligentsia. The foreign immigrants understand the metric and don't complain about it, whereas if they weren't here, the people like him would and it would be stopped.
Because the immigrants refuse to complain about the use of metric, he and his kind have to make an effort to understand it, but would prefer not to have to. John
