From: Pat Naughtin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: October 17, 2001 02:45 Subject: [USMA:15649] Re: An exchange with a Dutch aviator/meteorologsist
>Dear Han, > >Thanks for sharing this lively interchange. > >Have you inadvertently invented, yet another, new name for old measures. I >quote from your text: > >> The Anglo-Saxon 'system' of units What about ASS? Duncan has >> nothing to do with progress. It is not a system but a pile of medieval >> units, connected to each other with the most crazy conversion factors. > >I think that 'pile of medieval of units' has a certain panache � PMU >perhaps? > >Cheers, > >Pat Naughtin >CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist > - United States Metric Association >ASM - Accredited Speaking Member > - National Speakers Association of Australia >Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers >-- > > >on 2001/10/15 04.10, Han Maenen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> To all, >> >> I had this exchange with a webmaster of the Dutch weather site >> (http://meteonet.nl) who is also a pilot as I thought he was making a bad >> mistake. > ><snip> >
