Paul, The problem is that, even if a program is shot in a metric country like Australia, if the show is produced by Americans or distributed in the USA, the interviewees or narrators often use US Customary in place of metric (or add it to the metric measurements) either because they think they are translating for an American audience or because the producer or distributor has asked them to do so (and they're paying the bills, after all!)
So, the good news is that nobody in the chain "kvetched" (complained) that metric was being used. That's my reading of it, anyway. Cheers, Ezra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Trusten" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 11:46:43 PM Subject: [USMA:50454] Re: Wild Australia It makes sense that any discourse on Australia would end up being all metric, since Australia is all metric. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Payne" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: 2011-05-11 19:51 Subject: [USMA:50453] Wild Australia > Saw a program on PBS last night (Tuesday) called Wild Australia, appears > to be a regular series, what was great was that it was 100% metric, no > colonial units at all. I need to write to PBS congratulating them. > > Mike Payne > > >
