What I am saying is that I have nudged the BBC on that one and the have changed it (very quickly).
_____ From: Stephen Humphreys [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 13 May 2011 19:02 To: Martin Vlietstra; [email protected] Subject: RE: [USMA:50461] Re: Wild Australia You're right - but be fair - to the avg brit which would they 'pick up' on first ? I'm not saying its right or wrong - just the context _____ From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [USMA:50461] Re: Wild Australia Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 07:32:23 +0100 The same logic applies in the UK, which is why, on the BBC site, I keep my eyes open for the reverse. My favourite (which I have done a few times), is to criticize the BBC when they state that under UK law, no demonstrations may be held within half a mile of Parliament (the law actually states one kilometre). I tell them that they will ook very stupid if somebody is arrested for demonstrating 900 metres from Parliament and in their defence they draw to attention the BBC article. The BBC corrects things very quickly in these circumstances. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 13 May 2011 06:29 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:50460] Re: Wild Australia 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 > > >
