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Old 03-04-2018, 12:19 PM   #31893
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post

Almost all progress was made between 1968 and 1979. Everything is now metric and in decimal. Except for the very small number of exception you mention. The exceptions haven't changed for the past 40 years or so.
Why have they not changed? It's just one small thing left to do.

Strangely enough, when reading fantasy in English, I -highly- prefer the imperial system. When reading fantasy in English that uses the metric system which has happened only twice, IIRC, it felt like a translation from Dutch to English.

The giant hero should be 7 feet tall, not 2.10 metres.

Or... meters? I also can't get over the UK/US differences in spelling, nor the different words for some objects. In the last few years, I've noticed my spelling and word usage is a mix between UK and US, with the balance tipping towards one or the other depending on what books I'm reading and which movies I'm watching
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