In message , J G Miller
writes
On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 16:32:18h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

His use of that unit might have been as part of
the creation in the story of a background of enforced uniformity.

And do you not also recall that part of the back story of 1984
touch upon the change over to metric units with one character complaining
that a half litre (liter) of beer was not enough and a full litre
(liter) of beer was too much and the he longed for the pint before
IngSoc came to power?

Isn't the same true of most of the metric units? While imperial units
are based on real things, metric units are essentially un-natural and
contrived, and therefore most of them are either too large or too small
to fit the requirements of normal, everyday life.
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Ian

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:37:50 +0000, Ian Jackson
wrote:

In message , J G Miller
writes
On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 16:32:18h +0000, Peter Duncanson wrote:

His use of that unit might have been as part of
the creation in the story of a background of enforced uniformity.

And do you not also recall that part of the back story of 1984
touch upon the change over to metric units with one character complaining
that a half litre (liter) of beer was not enough and a full litre
(liter) of beer was too much and the he longed for the pint before
IngSoc came to power?

Isn't the same true of most of the metric units? While imperial units
are based on real things, metric units are essentially un-natural and
contrived, and therefore most of them are either too large or too small
to fit the requirements of normal, everyday life.

OTOH metric units are easier to work with, mathmatically since they
don't require arcane conversions.
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In article ,
Mark wrote:

OTOH metric units are easier to work with, mathmatically since they
don't require arcane conversions.

I think you mean "arithmetically". Mathematically units conversions
are trivial.

-- Richard

In message , Richard Tobin
writes
In article ,
Mark wrote:

OTOH metric units are easier to work with, mathmatically since they
don't require arcane conversions.

I think you mean "arithmetically". Mathematically units conversions
are trivial.

Even "easy"!
--
Ian

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:24 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 20:40:34h +0000, Graham. wrote:

I'm disappointed.

The use of the adjective "disappointed" has been severely
frowned upon by the newsgroup elders on at least one previous
occasion.


And the inhabitance of one Usenet newsgroup advocates removing a
negating prefix to make a new words, thus to molish means to make or
build.

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Graham.
%Profound_observation%

On 01/02/2012 21:04, Graham. wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:23:24 +0000 (UTC), J G
wrote:

On Monday, January 30th, 2012, at 20:40:34h +0000, Graham. wrote:

I'm disappointed.

The use of the adjective "disappointed" has been severely
frowned upon by the newsgroup elders on at least one previous
occasion.


And the inhabitance of one Usenet newsgroup advocates removing a
negating prefix to make a new words, thus to molish means to make or
build.

Keeps us gruntled... ;-)


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Cheers,

John.

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