English Should be Revised

[kandrathe]

Something else: what about them fully embracing the metric system?

I cannot fathom why we'd delay complete conversion! We'd be miles ahead if our populace would just be willing to budge an inch.

Little known SI units --

2000 mockingbirds = 2 kilomockingbird
1 millionth parts of fish = 1 microfiche
52 playing cards = 1 decacards

We've gone 50 years with everything is both... I guess it's like the language, we take what we like, and ignore what we don't. A liter is larger than a quart, so soda pop now comes in liters, while milk, or orange juice is still in quarts and gallons.

I'd say we do many things wrong, like for angles we should work in base 60, like the ancient Babylonians. 10 is just really an awkward base... so many repeating decimals.


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