An excellent analogy would be the metric system vs imperial measurement system, at least in the USA. A productive and profitable country of feet and pounds and

An excellent analogy would be the metric system vs imperial measurement system, at least in the USA. A productive and profitable country of feet and pounds and inches, but significant progress is usually made in labs full of meters and liters. One could say the constant translation problems between the systems are something like an intelligence filter which provides its own rewards when not actively translating.