>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>I would like to let you know that I am well on the path
>to becoming illiterate with the temperature scale invented
>by Danny Fareingheight! I am using degrees Celsius on
>a regular basis and am displaying degrees Celsius on my
>family's didgital thermometer

You are justified in your pride in becoming familiar with Celsius by using
it. Losing familiarity with Fahrenheit by not using it is not something to
be proud of. It may be an understandable consequence but it is not an
acheivement.

It is just like language learning. I am proud of improving my foreign
language skills by using them more. I would not be proud of forgetting
English by using it less.

I suspect that for you to be a good ambassador for metric in the US today,
you will need to be bilingual in Celsius and Fahrenheit like many US pilots
are. That might be better than professing ignorance of Fahrenheit.

Congratulations on all the effort you are investing at home. Keep up the
good work.

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