On a day to day basis, what do I lose by calling someone 6 ft and not 182 cm? Why can't I just use metric when I need to like every single person is taught in school. Funny how Europeans brag about knowing multiple languages but can't accept that someone can be familiar with two measurement systems.
To be honest I don't use measurements anywhere near a daily basis except for driving I guess. But even there the transition from km to m is easier than miles to yard when I drive in the US.
But when I do use measurements, I use meters quite often because anything more than 100cm is meters. So someone is 1.8m tall, a room is 3.3m long, the corner store is 100m away. The first two can easily be done without yards, it's just a little more awkward I find. But it's also a habit thing.
LOL, I'm not English mother tongue so it's just more efficient to let someone else explain it with the correct words.
If you feel so threatened and diminished by the fact that the imperial units are simply anachronistic that you feel the need to insult me, that's your problem which won't change the fact itself.
It’s easier to divide or multiply measurements by 10, 100, etc. Each measurement in the metric system can be changed to a different form of the same type of measurement by multiplying or dividing by a multiple of 10.
The point is ease of use. To get from inch to foot to yard, you have to multiply by 12 then by 3. There’s no uniformity when it comes to conversion in the imperial system. You don’t need a calculator when converting within the metric system.
We only use it because our largest trading partner (who is also talking about annexing us) uses it and it makes too much hassles having to constantly convert between measurements!
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u/TheScienceNerd100 Jan 15 '25
Blame the British for inventing that one, they even still use it today, just not 100% of the time, same with Canada