> If one has lived 30 years of one's life somewhere else, and less than 5 > years here, speaks broken English, and fluent whatever with other > immigrants > from their homeland, then how are able to forget metric so fast? What is > their problem?
Desire to assimilate. They've gotten enough frowns using metric that they think its more controversial than speaking broken English. Feigning "confusion" is just being politically correct. > Even immigrants to the US quickly jump on the FFU band wagon, pretending > they never heard of metric. Giving data about their homeland in FFU and > when I would speak to them in metric they would ask me to convert to FFU. > Saying they no longer remember metric. I get that, surprisingly from a few people I do research with. I also ignore it, saying I'm not very good at imperial measurement. Be confused or not be confused, either way the work is done in metric. The difference is knowing its contoversial, and not **caring**. Nat
