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Clock boy is back
It sounds to me like the grandfather found them and kid had nothing to do with it.
I wish people who write or translate for US audiences would have enough respect to use our units of measure.
Forcing metric on Americans is as insulting as asking us to “press 1 for English”.
I know there are FReepers who think this is trivial, but they are wrong.
Yes, it is easy enough to translate and make conversions when necessary. I speak several languages, and there are occasions where it makes sense to borrow terms from other languages. I can convert Celsius to Fahrenheit faster than anyone I know, but why should I have to?
I’ve heard the argument that metric is the language of the sciences - but that is bullshit and it is pure snobbery. I’ve heard the argument that metric somehow better or more accurate. Bullshit.
If metric is so “scientific”, why do scientists still divide a circle into 360 degrees rather than say, 100? Why are measures of time not multiples of 10?
Some sciences borrow vocabulary from Latin and Greek as well - but that different - it is not because it is somehow better or more accurate - it is simply because those languages are older, and were spoken by the developers of those sciences.
This attempt to foist metric upon the USA is just another example of the Left’s contempt for the USA - they are ashamed to be Americans - they wish we could be more like everyone else.
English classes beginning in kindergarten.......Wonder where his career path will take him?........LOL!
Did the dinosaurs in China have slanted eyes? : )