In a message dated Wed, 21 Feb 2001 9:26:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, "Conway Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: << If that US meet announcer gave the field event measurement in metrics AND THEN gave the corresponding feet and inches ... Over time Joe Sixpack would learn the conversions without even realizing it ... It is not incumbent upon the masses to learn what we want/need them to know .. It is incumbent upon us to teach them .. Nike gave away thousands of fans at the Olympic trials last year with the names of runners on them .. Why not give away thousands of fans with conversions on them ??? Why couldn't litttle charts be given away at the entrance of track meets .. Why can't announcers give dual measurements for a while ??>> Since EVERY major meet (and most almost-major ones) in the U.S. has been announced in both meters and feet for close to 25 years, and since I know that Conway has been to his fair share of these major meets, I can only draw the conclusion that he has given us the evidence to contradict his own argument. Since he doesn't think meters were given (yet we know they were), the inescapable conclusion is that his brain simply tuned them out because the English was available, and that's what he really WANTS to hear. Given the choice, U.S. fans want to hear English measure, and I can't think of a single good reason they shouldn't get their first choice if we hope to keep them as fans. gh
