Iensâ Ovéir
Group: citizens
(212 posts total)
(last post: February 04, 2008 - 02:55)
Citizen #29:
Iensâ Ovéir | > That's the central point. It's difficult that people who don't use the imperial System understand it, while it's true the contrary,
Just for the record, I'm going to put in my understanding of the Imperial system. (NZ uses only the metric system; the Imperial system may have been mentioned in school, but I was taught only how to use metric.)
I know that a yard is about the same as a metre. A metre is easy to estimate; it's about the same as a long stride.
I have no idea how many yards are in a mile, nor how long a mile is, except that it's longer than a kilometre.
I know an inch is 2.5cm, and I sometimes use inches when referring to things like how much I want the hairdresser to take off my hair, or similar short distances. I don't tend to use inches for talking about lengths any longer than 6 inches or so.
I know that ' and " are used for feet and inches, but I don't know which is which.
I know that there are 12 inches in a foot, but I don't know how many inches or feet are in a yard.
I roughly know my height in feet and inches, but it's not as exact as my height in centimetres.
Volume- and weight-wise, I have absolutely no clue. There's um...pounds and pints, right? Oh, and ounces. I have no idea how much any of these is, nor what their equivilent is in litres, millilitres, kilograms or grams.
Fahrenheit is a bit of a mystery to me. I only know that it intersects with celcius at about -40, and that 93 degrees is the same as 37 degrees celcius, and I only know that from American books and TV shows which talk about people having fevers!
Iensâ Ovéir |
