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This is only because you're british and because of the way you learned how to measure things when you were young. I'm totally unable to represent in my head ho
by flaie 14y ago
This is only because you're british and because of the way you learned how to measure things when you were young.
I'm totally unable to represent in my head how really tall "about five foot" is whereas 1,50m is totally understandable for me, easy to visualize.
- robmcm 14y agoI was educated during the conversion in the UK and commonly switch between the two. Speed and distances for travel in miles, shorter distances in meters. Height in feet for people, meters for building etc. Weight of people in stone, otherwise normally grams, liquids in pints for some things, liters for others. It's confusing, but makes sense in the long run.
- venus 14y ago> It's confusing, but makes sense in the long run. You're perceiving things like this because it's what you were brought up with. None of the examples in which you claim it's "natural" to use imperial units make any sense to me at all. I don't think in miles, don't know how much a "stone" is, and pints are just pure confusion - which pint? there's about 4 types isn't there? It's what you grew up with, nothing more.
- robmcm 14y agoYes but getting the transition from one to the other takes a long long time.