As weird as some people think it is to go from, say, pounds to
kilograms, no one in the US (present company excluded) ever stops to
think about how weird it is to convert something like a 2 liter bottle
back to US fluid ounces. It never even dawned on me until yesterday,
when I noticed that one of the bottles of soda at Thanksgiving dinner
had (67.6 fl. oz.) on it.
No one would ever say, "Get me a 67 ounce bottle of soda".
Ziser, Jesse wrote:
Liters are the first metric units most Americans will willingly switch to.
Clearly, soda and
drink companies are the reason. My mom is kind of set in her ways and doesn't
adapt to new things
easily. I haven't yet convinced her to make the switch (or even that she's capable of doing so).
But on Tuesday she asked me to bring over a liter of soda for us to drink with Thanksgiving
dinner. I gladly did, and later pointed out she had already gone metric in
drink sizes. She
replied that she guessed the switch could be doable "one unit at a time".
Even some of the "difficult people" can be brought around with time and a
little help from
industry.
Happy Thanksgiving!
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I notice that the Associated Press reports that urine collected in the Space
Station is being
purified and collected in one liter containers for return to earth for testing.
The AP did *no*
conversion to older units.
The Associated Press *can* retain original metric units in spite of the AP
Style Manual calling
for adulteration.
Gene Mechtly
