Han wrote 'They taught the awful form of 1m67cm, 2kg670g etc ' If we have to get rid of this, then we should first eliminate talking like 'twenty five dollars and forty five cents', 'eighteen euros and twenty five cents', etc
and instead say 'twenty five point forty five dollars', 'eighteen point twenty five euros', etc Still we are not using the decimal currency system, even though it was introduced more than 200 years ago. Madan --- Han Maenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [USMA:21595] Re: Comments on flawless > documents > Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 15:27:58 +0200 > > I am just reading this long ago message (I was in > Ireland). > I suspect some marketing reason exists for using > improper use of symbols of > metric units in ads. > We know how traders in many cases try to corrupt the > use of measuring units. > One of these methods may be to use these erroneous > abbreviations in > advertisements. > Why else do companies use gr for g, mtr for m, ltr > for L, etc? > The USA is in no way involved in this. Cosmetics > labels in OZ.LIQ have > nothing to do with labels saying Net Wt. 1000 gr > (which in fact, literally > means 1000 grains, although they mean to say > grams!). > > Some years ago Irish primary schoolbooks committed > some serious errors. > They taught the awful form of 1m67cm, 2kg670g etc > and all this then had to > be unlearned at secondary school level were books > used the correct > notations. > > Han > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, 2002-06-26 16:43 > Subject: [USMA:20653] Re: Comments on flawless > documents > > > > At 09:04 AM 24 June 2002 -0700, Ma Be wrote: > > >Now, what happened here is perhaps the real crux > of the question. Why is > > >it that these "professionals" (media people) seem > to *notably* "not fall > in line" with other types of professionals, like > scientists, for instance, > > >when it comes to writing SI units? And I'm not > talking about "literary > stuff", Jim, since there simply cannot be any > "literary" value in using > 500ml instead of 500 ml, for instance... ;-) > > > > I think some of you non-USA people need to address > this question. Your > countries have been metric for (in some cases) > decades, and yet your > companies put out products with "improper" metric > labeling, and your media > frequently use metric improperly. > > > > If you have a generation or two of people who have > grown up with metric, > who have (presumably) been taught proper metric > usage in school, then why is > there so much improper use of the metric system in > these countries? > > > > And don't try to blame this one on the USA: having > colloquial-labeled > products "invade" your country does not magically > translate to causing > improper metric usage. > > > > > > Jim Elwell, CAMS > > Electrical Engineer > > Industrial manufacturing manager > > Salt Lake City, Utah, USA > > www.qsicorp.com > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
