Agreed, I do not have the political support BUT my will to express some suggestions to make metrication meaningful: rather than cause and keep confusion hanging!
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From: "Han Maenen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [USMA:25218] Re: How is the metrication progress in us politics? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:02:19 +0100
Yes, I agree. The word mileage can stay, it can be replaced sometimes with '
distance'. However, especially if you want to apply the rule
Quantity = Numeric value * Unit.
When the Castlebar Four Days Walks used miles their Certificate of Fitness
stated at first: Total mileage covered.... , then it became Total Distance
covered.....miles; and in the end it became Total Distance covered......km.
We still know the word acre (akker) and acreage (akkerland); it now means
field for growing crops and acreage means possessing such fields, expressed
in hectares: "Ik heb 120 ha akkerland" or "Ich besitze 120 ha Akkerland" =
My acreage is 120 ha. The original meaning of the word 'akker', a unit of
measurement, is only known by historians of measurement. A placename like
Vierakker shows the original meaning of the akker as a unit; translated it
would mean Fouracres.
And fathometers can measure depths in meters; no problems. I saw fathometers
on Dutch warships set to meters. They could also be set to feet and fathoms.
Han
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Wade VMS Systems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 2003-03-19 16:49 Subject: [USMA:25216] Re: How is the metrication progress in us politics?
by the way, I think with metrication should also come
1. international road signs 2.. 24 h clock usage 3. replacing the word mileage with kilometrage (french pronounced) 4. no MM/DD/YYYY any more replace it with YYYY-MM-DD 5. no metrication of pound/pint to 500 g/mL
1, 2 & 4 I support 100%. 5 I could live with, but I'd prefer to see the term disappear completely. However, point 3 I would disagree with.
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