On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 01:39:14PM -0400, Pierre Abbat wrote: > Why is the teacher, who is Nicaraguan if I remember right, teaching this > Colombian girl a temperature scale which we Americans decided over thirty > years ago to give up?
Because he thinks it's the American way and he's trying to fit in (he probably doesn't know that we've been trying to get rid of it for decades). Many people who come here try their hardest to fit in as much as possible (particularly important with the isolationist movement at the moment). Chat with him about it and point out where things stand and how much safer it is to use metric exclusively for medicine. Paul -- End dual-measurement, let's finish going metric! http://gometric.us/ http://www.metric.org/
