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Posted by Ted Zlatanov on June 4, 2008, 2:37 pm
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 wrote:

ASU> To meter is to measure. I am finding it increasingly obnoxious (as
ASU> my years in the U.S. add up) that the French decided to impose on
ASU> the rest of the world the one true system of measurement and co-op
ASU> a generic term meaning to measure/measurement for that purpose.

To be fair, the French didn't have too many terms available, since 99%
of their language is dedicated to food, sex, and unconditional surrender.

Ted

Posted by Jürgen Exner on June 4, 2008, 4:38 pm
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>The US has been officially a metric country since the Metric Conversion Act
>of 1975. Before that it was legal but not preferred to use SI units, since
>then it is legal but not preferred to use "English" units. Of course,
>conversion is voluntary. Highway signs don't seem to have made much progress,
>but its only been 33 years.

Oh, come on. Don't be so hard. They are making great progress.
Distances in km on tourist information boards will last several weeks
now. In the past they were scratched off within days.
And the last shelf in the hardware store out of those 15-20 now contains
metric screws and bolts. Although, I have to admit, that is only because
those foreign car companies are too stupid to convert their cars to King
Georg's thumb width at the port of entry.

jue

Posted by smallpond on June 4, 2008, 5:28 pm
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wrote:
>> The US has been officially a metric country since the Metric Conversion Act
>> of 1975. Before that it was legal but not preferred to use SI units, since
>> then it is legal but not preferred to use "English" units. Of course,
>> conversion is voluntary. Highway signs don't seem to have made much progress,
>> but its only been 33 years.
>
> Oh, come on. Don't be so hard. They are making great progress.
> Distances in km on tourist information boards will last several weeks
> now. In the past they were scratched off within days.
> And the last shelf in the hardware store out of those 15-20 now contains
> metric screws and bolts. Although, I have to admit, that is only because
> those foreign car companies are too stupid to convert their cars to King
> Georg's thumb width at the port of entry.
>
> jue


I like to use 5/32" hex wrench which is interchangeable with 4 mm.
That's the wrench used for rollerblade wheels and the door
key for IBM mainframes.

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Posted by pat.norton on June 13, 2008, 1:20 pm
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J=FCrgen Exner wrote:
>Oh, come on. Don't be so hard. They are making great progress.

Indeed. The US military has had a large part to play in normalising
the use of the metric system, at least for units of distance.

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