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From: Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 1:08 pm
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Consistency
Not until my generation is dead and buried, at least.
Back when I was
in grade school in the 70s, they tried to teach us the metric system
(which is clearly inferior and incomprehensible, by the way!) but it
didn't take. Being an educated person, I can do the conversions, but
I have no intuitive grasp of Celcius temperatures, nor do most
Americans.
Same with mine, in the early 90s. It's more common, however, to see metric/SI
required even in junior high science courses. Was at my school, anyhow. But no, it
doesn't go anywhere for day-to-day tasks. I dunno what it'll take, besides force,
to get Americans to abandon imperial units.
Seriously, though, at the present time there is no
significant
movement afooot to change our measurement system, nor does anyone seem
to particularly care.
Very true.