Below is another hackneyed error, just as untrue as the previous one from
"Golf Digest." The USMA is starting to address this one by its new motto
about "completing" the conversion to the Metric System. I think that a
good deal of the P.R. problem is that Americans (that is, U.S. natives;
the rest of America is metricated) don't realize how much they are already
metricated. It certainly is at least 50%. Outside of reported
temperatures and road signs, most areas are at least dual now, and many
are fully metricated.
From "Yale News"
"In high school [in Japan], my friends and I talked about Americans like
they weren't us. (Most of us, though admittedly not all, had at least one
parent who had been raised stateside.) Americans couldn't understand the
metric system, we joked."
By the way, it seems as if the Yalies are just as compromised with their
English as with their measurement system. "Like" in English is properly a
preposition taking an object, not a conjunction taking a clause.)
