JEEESH! Why must all of you continue your pursuit of what one of my pharmacy
professors
once called hirsute cleavage---splitting hairs?
What about 2009? The FPLA? The European Union? More on the day-to-day creep
towards US metrication in
the absence of Congressional action?
I admit I started this, but had no intention of turning one question into
this list's longest streak of polemicism.
My German friend (BTW, she is a music teacher in Berlin) never heard of SI,
and I'm glad I posed the question here, since the important point was made
that only we Americans
are hung up on giving it a name, since those in officialdom know what it is,
but the rank and file of the rest of the world
just knows "it" is there and they use "it" and they know nothing else but
that system of measurement.
Iit will make our dialogue progress, in the future I shall refer to that
system of measurement simply as the
metric system. After all, the organization we belong to is not called the US
SI Association.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
3609 Caldera Boulevard, Apartment 122
Midland TX 79707-2872 USA
432-694-6208
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"There are two cardinal sins, from
which all the others spring: impatience
and laziness."
---Franz Kafka
