D. N. Vercáriâ
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(last post: March 15, 2008 - 16:51)
Citizen #26:
Dieter N Vercáriâ | > > Mainly, our laws and documents (such as the ID card that is so vehemently discussed in this thread) will become standardized by the introduction of the metric system. So I'd think that it will not create a nightmare if we adopt the metric system as our standard.
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> > Try to see it from my continental European point of view: I have to understand and to speak English as sort of a global international standard, also in Talossa. On the other hand, outside of the USA Imperial measures come accross as, forgive me, incomprehensible gibberish which is bewildering the mathematically challenged, i.e., for instance, yours truly. So I guess we'll both have to bear our burden, I with the tricky English language and the even more tricky spelling thereof, and some of you with the metric system. Fair deal? ;-)
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> No.
I've been talking to Andy, Mr. G. So sit down and shut up. :-P
- Dieter |
