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To: enumerated

Hmmm...... and here we thought you were enumerated


13 posted on 06/13/2021 1:00:01 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: bert

Haha..

I’m actually good with math and several languages.

When I’m in a Spanish-speaking country I can get by with what I know, look it up, or find a translator.

But in my own country I shouldn’t have to bother.

Same with foreign units of measure. In my own country I shouldn’t have to do a conversion to figure out how fast something is going.

Then some people will argue that if I’m reading a foreign scientific journal translated to English, I should expect metric units of measure. My answer there is - if they are going to bother translating it, why didn’t they translate the units of measure?

Funny story. I was driving home from a trip and saw a patrol car just as I was passing through a 25mph zone. I slowed down and checked my speed - to my surprise, I was still going 40! I slowed down even more and was finally down to about 25 when the cop pulled up beside me and signaled for me to roll down my window.

I stopped, rolled it down and he said: “why so slow?”

As soon as he said that I realized what happened: my 2007 Honda Civic has a mph/kph switch right next to the trip counter and I must have accidentally toggled it.

No harm done this time - the cop laughed. But brainlessly accommodating foreign languages and units of measure is not just an annoyance - it is a mark of what pussies Americans have become - thanks to the Left.


18 posted on 06/13/2021 5:17:48 PM PDT by enumerated
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