If you use 34 °F, you must remember the “F-word” - 34 degrees in my part of the world is considered a scorcher. I have certainly been caught out in this respect when reading John Grisham.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: 12 January 2011 20:02 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:49484] Re: Book review: The Geometry of Pasta On Jan 10 , at 4:45 PM, Pat Naughtin wrote: I like your term "metric-disabled" and I intend to use it shamelessly! I use the term "metrically challenged" for my friends and family. I don't use it in a confrontational way, but in a helpful way: "Our temperature here in sunny Florida this morning was an uncomfortably cold 1 ˚C. (That's about 34 ˚F for my metrically challenged friends.)" Yes, I know that it's less than perfect to convert for them, but after doing this occasionally for a while, I then can get away with using just metric sometimes, and maybe further along I can abandon Ye Olde English units entirely when speaking/writing to them. Bill Hooper 1800 mm tall Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== SImplification Begins With SI. ==========================
