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Shame you're downvoted, because it's a comment that shows why this imperial/American vs metric "competition" is silly. It's like saying Cyrillic is better than
by bserge 6y ago
Shame you're downvoted, because it's a comment that shows why this imperial/American vs metric "competition" is silly.
It's like saying Cyrillic is better than Latin script. Or driving on the left is better than on the right. In reality, it just doesn't matter. Whichever you grow up with will seem like the easier one.
When I think -5C, I know how the temperature will actually feel. Someone who thinks "25F" will feel the same in their head. Same for 25cm, 5 inches, 10kg, 40lbs, 9 stones, 7 shaku, etc. Whatever you grew up with will feel better.
Metric just seems to have won in most of the world, including in countries like the US and Japan which use it in science/industry. It just makes sense to have one standard for communicating with as many other people as possible.
- majewsky 6y ago> It's like saying Cyrillic is better than Latin script. [...] It just doesn't matter. Out of all the examples that you gave, this is the one that doesn't fit your argument. Cyrillic has a wider range of letters which makes it a better fit for certain languages with a specific phonology. I don't remember which language it was, but I remember reading about one of the countries between Russia, Turkey, Iran, etc. switched from their indigenous writing system to Latin script in the 1930s/1940s to enable usage of standard typewriters etc. And just a few years later, they switched again, to Cyrillic script, after finding that Latin script does not fit their language all that well.