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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I do notice regional differences, mostly, and hate seeing them "translated". I'd rather have to google a word or phrase than think "there's a no way a character from X would say Y"
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Yes. It's a sort of Cultural Vandalism.
Also temperatures need °F or °C
No need to update money even in old Children's books.
I mostly use metric in my SF unless it's an American. UK characters are more complicated because UK uses a mix of metric and imperial. Ireland more metric with distances as km and speeds as kph. It's a translation anyway on Alien worlds.
In Fantasy Otherworlds I'd mostly use imperial or archaic units, but °C if temperature explicit values. Most of those stories connect to here, now, so when an undercover party is in New York, Washington DC, England, Belfast, Limerick, Jerusalem or wherever they'd use local terms for everyday things to blend in.