10 February 2009

15 cm

I've decided that no matter the benefits of the metric system, it's not worth the loss of cultural identity. Pints of beer and foot-long subs, not to mention football, are at stake.

3 comments:

Don said...

That, in a nutshell, is why the U.S. has never adopted the metric system, in spite of official mandates.

Shakespeare's Cobbler said...

I don't see why one couldn't use both in exactly the way formal and informal language are both retained.

ganchi said...

kinda like in the UK

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