Dear Editor, Surely, in the article below seen today on foxnews.com, you meant to say "100 m" or "100-meter" instead of "110-yard". The Mainichi Daily News undoubtedly used the metric value instead of putting it in yards.
I am confident that every American alive today has seen a meter stick and knows how large a meter is. Americans often watch Olympic and U.S. track and swim events, where distances are given in meters, such as 100 m sprints. Please do not "dumb down" your articles for us. As the United States continues its progress towards metrication such awkward substitutions as yours seem very obsolete. Even the AP style guide says that you should have retained the metric value! If your reporters are behind the curve of the rest of us Americans, as they seem to be here, perhaps you could arrange some in-house education for them. I would hate to see your journalists getting left in the dust of days that have long gone by. Jim Frysinger [cited article] Attack of the 110-Yard Monster Sushi Roll Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Now that's a wrap, or should we say roll? About 1,000 people turned out Sunday in Mexico to make a 110-yard-long sushi roll in honor of the 110th anniversary of the first Japanese immigration to Mexico, the Mainichi Daily News reports. The participants — many of Japanese descent — worked together to make an "Azteca" roll using cactus, fish cake and rice. "The rolled sushi, a mixture of Japanese and Mexican food, symbolizes the integration of both cultures," a 64-year-old man of Japanese descent told the paper. The first Japanese immigrants came to Mexico in 1897, the paper said. Only 35 people came in the first wave. Today, the Japanese-Mexican population remains small, with around 17,000 people of Japanese descent living in this nation of approximately 105 million. The event was sponsored by a local Japan-Mexico society. Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272293,00.html
