.... unless they've lived in the UK or the US ... or Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Payne" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 4:13:07 PM Subject: [USMA:49702] Re: Australia metric
I have a nephew and a niece in Australia, late teens early 20's, My sister told me one time how tall daughter was in feet and inches and I heard her daughter in the background ask how many centimeters that was, she apparently only knew the metric height. So the coming generation of adults seem to know only metric unless they've lived in the UK or the US. Mike Payne On 30/01/2011, at 10:13 , Kilopascal wrote: I would be curios to know if the persistent use of the foot and acre are dying out among the new generation or are they also continuing to use these remnant terms? If a person were asked to state their height in metres, would they know it? The hospitals should refuse to convert stating that it is a danger to health and life to do so. I'm sure there is a way to educate the new parents to know what is a normal and safe mass in kilograms so the mothers don't have to ask. From: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, 2011-01-29 20:10 To: Kilopascal Subject: Re: Australia metric Hi, nobody asks for pounds, mandated metrication guaranteed that. If it happened at the beginning of metrication the shop assistants would have known how many grams a pound was and would have explained it to the customer. Almost all people today talk of personal weight in kg. Slimming parlours, gyms, the media use kg exclusively Apart from some grandmothers insisting that hospitals convert their daughters babies birth weight into pounds everything is fully metric and so are all the recordings of baby's progress in weight and length. Young women eventually get sick of continuously converting grams and mm/cm into odd old units. That practice will disappear quicker than the persistent foot and acre. On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 12:59 -0500, "Kilopascal" < [email protected] > wrote: I'd be curious to know what happens when a person asks for pounds and the deli counter, sees only grams on the scale and isn't sure if they got what they thought they asked for? How does one intelligently shop if they don't know the units? If a person asks for a pound are they sold 500 g or does the clerk ask them to repeat their request using grams? From: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 2011-01-25 00:07 To: Kilopascal Subject: Re: Australia metric On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:30 -0500, "Kilopascal" < [email protected] > wrote: [USMA:49576] Re: More dumbing down via NPR Pat Naughtin Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:36:50 -0800 I'm sure she never asks for gram at the deli counter and more often then not will be given more than she asked for. Yes she will, nobody sells anything in pounds, or ounces in shops nor anywhere else, except on that obscure site. The staff would not know what ounce is in gram. -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1191 / Virus Database: 1435/3400 - Release Date: 01/24/11 -- [email protected] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service. No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3410 - Release Date: 01/29/11
