A better label for colonial american units is "sub-standard", and
that's true in various ways:
- clumsy, incoherent
- difficult to use
- used by a small minority of humans
- units literally defined in terms of the accepted standard
On 19 Dec 2010, at 11:07, Kilopascal wrote:
What is even worse is when Americans is insist on calling USC
"standard". It is annoying when someone asks "is it metric or
standard"? My reply is that the two words mean the same thing as
metric is the standard. Another problem is when some people refer
to inch based tools as SAE (especially for automobiles) when the
SAE went metric decades ago and metric hardware is more SAE than non-
metric.
This is something that is more damaging than calling the units
American use as customary.
