From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Subject: [USMA:33465] Re: London terror
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:51:09 -0400
I heard the exact same interview. She gave her name as Abigail Milner (sp)
and looked like a young girl in her twenties.
To those who would say that the UK is still imperial or the people still
speak imperial, this person was a poor advertisement. When a person such
as this from the UK speaks metric freely to a world audience, it tells the
world that the people of the UK do speak metric in casual speech.
I'm sure most people don't think about the units used in the UK or
elsewhere but when an American hears someone speaking English and using
metric terms freely the impression set is that the person comes from a
metric country and uses metric freely in her other conversations as well.
The horror of the events in London today shouldn't be cheapened by battles
over measuring units but it did give us the opportunity to hear for
ourselves in a time of crises that real English people do speak metric.
I'm sure this person isn't a lone wolf but one of many.
"The horror of the events in London today shouldn't be cheapened by battles
over measuring units "
But you've done just that with your fantasism.
I've said it before - tune in to any radio from the UK on the web and listen
that way.
Someone saying "metres" in these circumstances is trivial considering the
subject.
I, for one, am not going to further this with examples of other people
talking in a different way.
