Actually, I've been surprised how many people that come into work wanting say an ink cartridge will include the "10mL" as part of the model number because they've never seen the marking for milliliters or are not familiar with it.
I've had people in grocery stores ask what the 25m means on the dental floss package or what the 1L means on their Listerine bottles, so it's not as common in some places. Although I do agree with you that with a little exposure it's an easy enough thing to fix. Mike On 6/28/07, Bill Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007 Jun 28 , at 11:25 AM, Mike Millet wrote: ... I also noticed that they commonly used litre and metre instead of the accepted US spellings. Is this common outside of the UK and other Commonwealth nations to just randomly adopt the re instead of the er :)? There may be as many people (world wide) who use the -re spelling of metre and litre as there are who use the -er spelling. Yes, it would be nice if everyone spelled it the same way but surely anyone reading it would understand it with either spelling. ,,, all those annoying comma's they're using to separate decimal centimeters now I'm all the way confused. 38,8cm just is weird to me, Again, there may be as many people who use the comma for a decimal point as there are who use the period. It can be confusing -- does 1,325 mean "one and 325 thousandths" or does it mean "one thousand three hundred twenty-five"? Use of the comma as a decimal point is different from what you (and I) are familiar with but there is nothing weird about it. Again, I agree that it would be better if everyone did it the same way, but they don't. A well informed person needs to be aware of the different uses and be prepared to understand either one (or be prepared to ask which is meant when, as in my example above, it really is ambiguous. ... spell out liter and such because otherwise people would have no idea what the L stood for. Spelling out a unit is always an option when the intended audience may be unfamiliar with the correct symbols, but I find it hard to believe that there are many people out there who would not realize that "L" stands for "litres"; and those who don't would easily be able to learn it -- as any well infrmed individual would want to do. Bill Hooper 1810 mm tall Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI. ==========================
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