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Metric users generally do not use organic units to describe extraordinarily large objects. That's it stuff like xx Olympic swimming pools or xx football fields
by xxs 12y ago
Metric users generally do not use organic units to describe extraordinarily large objects. That's it stuff like xx Olympic swimming pools or xx football fields (american nontheless) doesn't sound natural at all. It's all in meters/kilometers, etc.
- bowlofpetunias 12y agoNah, "soccer fields" is a very common way to reference size/length in various European cultures.
- ajuc 12y agoWhich ones? I've never heard it.
- loup-vaillant 12y agoMine. I'm French. We often use soccer fields as a unit of surface.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThe British press regularly measure things in football (soccer) pitches, London double-decker buses, Eiffel towers, blue whales and Wales. The Register regularly does piss-take articles about this and even provides a handy conversion calculator. http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-converter.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conve... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_stan...
- xxs 12y agoI was under the impression El Reg does it as a joke to the US.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoNah, it is a common habit the world over, no matter what the local official system of measurement happens to be. http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/may/17/mind-your-language-david-marsh http://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2010/may... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measurement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measur... I like the one suggested in the book Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, of measuring faith in Alps.
- ivanhoe 12y agoalso in Eastern Europe...