Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> Liters are too big and centiliters are too small.
> >   For what? And in cooking a deciliter is a very common measure.

> But it's four syllables long. :-)

  In Finnish it's commonly abbreviated to "desi" in colloquial speech.

> >> Basically, the factor of 1000 in common units 
> >> is the problem. :-)
> > 
> >   There are 10 millimeters in a centimeter, and 100 centimeter in a meter,
> > and 10 deciliters in a liter. What 1000?

> Grams to kilograms, for example.

  One example. More examples?

> Hey, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying *I* find it inconvenient 
> most of the time I'm in places that use metric. I'm just trying to 
> explain stuff that might make someone resist using metric, as someone 
> raised on imperial measurements who has spent months in countries where 
> they use metric, is all.

  Resistance to change, that's what it is. ;)

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                                                          - Warp

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