Further stating that it's SI and giving long wordage explaining such just dilutes the message.
08:23 2003-06-09 -0700, Ma Be wrote:
Unfortunately the answer is an emphatic no! Most people in metric countries just know SI by 'metric' However, they do accept the fact that metric MAY be constantly "changing" or improving. So this doesn't bother them.
Marcus
On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 13:43:47
Paul Trusten, R.Ph. wrote:
>For just about as long as I've been following this list, I have had a German pen pal in Berlin. Last week, I sent her something I had written,
>and it was peppered with the acronym "SI". She, a music teacher and a lifelong European, wrote back to me asking what "SI" stood for, and of course,I replied with an explanation
>
>She is only one person, but it got me to thinking---is the acronym familiar to most people who use that measurement system?
>
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