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Here's a country changing their alphabet to boost their international compatibility... now if only the US would switch to the metric system.

• emodendroket 9y ago
  Not like people are going to refuse to trade with the US because we have customary units, realistically. That's the benefit of being the world's richest country and not a small Central Asian one.
  • parliament32 9y ago
    Foreign trade is, interestingly enough, considered the most important reason to convert the US to the metric system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_States#20th_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat... Apart from trade though, this issue might cause some countries to hesitate to work with the US for scientific research or related initiatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_...
    • emodendroket 9y ago
      The world's largest consumer market, among other things, more than make up for the inconvenience of specifying that a screw is one-eighth of an inch.
  • amaccuish 9y ago
    And people refuse to trade with countries with a different alphabet?