On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Jim_Cobb wrote: > > why don't you Anglophones try the metric system? > > > - fernando > > Perhaps you should consider us bilingual in terms of units. > Technically inclined (and many other) Anglophones use both English and > SI units with comfort, though we prefer one set for some applications > and the other for others. I wouldn't suggest that someone who is > bilingual should avoid using one of his languages... (just to relate > this to a previous thread :-) > > Jim
Indeed! Why, just last night, I was working with furlongs and fifths of seconds... Dave
