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On 5/2/04 7:43 AM, in article , "Hans"
wrote:

I agree.

For a normal person it is almost impossible to understand all these
interesting topics when it is full of gallons, feets and psi's instead of
litres, meters and Pascals


Another sad comment on the current capabilities of the "normal person".
Or, you personally.

I also noticed an extreme bias in the original poster's comments. If
*he* is having sucvh a difficult time thinking in Imperial units because
he grew up with metric units, then why can't he put himself in others'
shoes and understand that it's just as hard for those of us who grew up
with Imperial units to think in terms of metric units? It's not that
most of us have any problems whatsoever understanding metric units --
they're quite easy to understand -- it's that, like first languages vs.
second languages, we "think" in the units we grew up with.

And it's like second languages -- some people can become quite fluent
and proficient in second languages, others cannot.

In other words, it was a hell of an overgeneraliation on the part of the
original poster, reflecting an unstated prejudice that, frankly, was
both untrue and uncalled-for.

Doug