skilletlicker
Head Chef
Excellent. Why don't we figure out exactly what we disagree about. My preference for inches over centimeters is a reflection of a wider societal and cultural preference with which I grew up and am now comfortable with. It also is the unit of measurement used in recipes shared formally (cookbooks) and informally (how Mom did it). Surely you can't argue that this isn't at least a small part of the "culture" most of us grew up with.GB said:I completely disagree.
The difference is a matter of degree not of kind. Language is certainly a much larger part of the culture but unless you disagree with my point above, both are parts.GB said:Language is a different animal altogether
Do you have any doubt that there are not at least "hundreds and hundreds" of different standards of measurement? I'm not widely travelled so I will rely here on what I assume to be self-evident assumtions. Aborginal Australians, South American Indians, Eskimos, Sub-Saharan Africans, Vikings, Arabs, Persians, Indians, Chinese, etc., etc. all developed standards of measurement. Is it remotely possible that all but two of these systems are dead or exinct. Or is it just much more likely that only the imperial system warrants condemnation.GB said:not to mention that there are hundreds and hundreds of different one. Not just two
I feel like the only one who notices that the metric system IS used in the US. If you buy foodstuffs here look at any bag or can in your pantry. There is also a chronology of our conversion here. GB, your comment also and again overlooks cultures that in addition to their use of the metric system use more traditional measurements in many of their homes and businesses. The Chinese might be one example.GB said:one of which is used by 3 countries and one used by everyone else
This is just patently untrue. A becquerel is a unit of radiation measurment that obviously has not always existed as a concept in any system.GB said:Some languages have words or ideas that do not exist in other languages. That is not true with units of measure.
So GB, my hunch is that all we really disagree on is the the precise meaning of metrication.
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