The use of the SI prefixes would be natural since they are used in many
other applications: terabyte, megabits, etc.etc.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Trusten, R.Ph." <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Cc: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:42 PM
Subject: [USMA:42277] Re: Ed-week
In my hometown newspaper, today's editorial and one op-ed piece decried
the
bandying-about of "trillions" of dollars. Why not start applying SI
prefixes to
these sums of money? Anybody got a teradollar or two? In terms of the
national
debt, that sounds less ominous.
Quoting STANLEY DOORE <[email protected]>:
The US education establishment likes to use sophisticated words like
metric
and metrics without understanding what the words really mean, or, they
use
changes of commonly used words to something similar to hide the real
meaning.
Stan Doore
----- Original Message -----
From: Norman & Nancy Werling
To: U.S. Metric Association
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 5:05 PM
Subject: [USMA:42274] Re: Ed-week
Pat,
I find it fascinating that many American professionals of many
persuations
continually use the word "metric" in the sense of "defining measures of
success, etc." when referring to many topics. But these same
professionals--and I use the word loosely--continue to change meters to
yards. I continue to feel that it is the media who are most guilty with
regard to changing SI terms to USC.
On January 8 Pat Naughton wrote:
Subject: [USMA:42272] Ed-week
Dear All,
I happened on this web site at http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html
and
thought that they might have some thoughts on metric system education in
the
USA. However, a search for the words metric system (without quotes)
resulted
in 4 references that referred to system and systems and that used the
word
metric and metrics only in the sense of using the right metrics or
choosing
another metric.
It would appear that the metric system has not been thought worthy of
consideration by these magazines in the last 12 months.
For information about who runs this web site go to
http://www.edweek.org/info/about/
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped
thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern
metric
system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save
thousands
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provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and
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