Posted on 07/06/2006 7:02:08 AM PDT by Millee
But you do a lot more with a system of units than unit conversions, and everything else is easier in English. And I think many people can, in fact, do whatever conversions they have to do in their head, even in English.
I say this as someone who has been immersed in and completely comfortable with both systems.
We have changed English drastically since the days of Chaucer and the King James Bible. A computer sould be able to clean up the archaic spellings we still have, and it would be another improvement for literacy. There is no way that "way" and "weigh" should sound alike, not to mention "wood" and "would." These relics from the dark ages need to be excised from modern English.
anybody talk about leet speak? That's fun.
ebonics, part II.
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