Paul, Your hint suggests a better word "stupification"; a stupid act; the act of converting to something stupid; as in converting SI values to values outside SI.
Furthermore, the word dumb means the inability to speak. Opponents of metrication can and do speak sometimes in loud voices (and often write nonsensical arguments). Gene. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:04:44 -0700 >From: Paul Armstrong <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:47647] Re: Oil Spill Technical Team Using SI >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > >Numbed down is better than dumbed down. >... > If a perjorative can be found that truly expresses how >stupid such a transformation is, then by all means use that. > >Paul
