On Tuesday 18 March 2008 21:40, Scott Hudnall wrote: > You bring up a good point, Bill. Managers use the term "metrics" all > the time to mean "a measurement". I think this actually gives us an > opportunity to interject "metric" as an adjective and "metric" as a > concept into their discussions. > > Next time your manager asks for the "metrics" from last month, be > sure that you use metric units :)
When I was in Portugal working on a construction project, at one time I had misplaced the measuring tape. (Several people brought measuring tapes, but I was the only one who brought a tape with metric on it.) I didn't know what it's called in Portuguese, so I couldn't ask the Portuguese construction worker if he'd seen it. When I found it, I asked him, and he said it's "a fita metrica" (which I've said in Spanish sometimes, even though "fita" isn't Spanish). If a measuring tape does not have metric units, is it still uma fita metrica? Pierre
