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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 13:39:30
Bismarck.Dracondria said: "The vast majority of the world's countries use the Celsius scale to measure temperature. The United States is the only sizable nation in which widespread use of the Fahrenheit scale persists. A handful of smaller countries still use the Fahrenheit scale to varying extents, including Belize, Burma, Liberia, Palau and a few of the historically British-influenced Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica. Weather temperatures in some parts of Canada and Great Britain are occasionally reported in degrees Fahrenheit, mainly for the benefit of older residents who grew up accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, prior to their governments' conversion to the metric system." Majority of the world uses the metric system. You guys need to convert to it >_> We don't NEED to convert to anything...
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 13:40:48
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: "The vast majority of the world's countries use the Celsius scale to measure temperature. The United States is the only sizable nation in which widespread use of the Fahrenheit scale persists. A handful of smaller countries still use the Fahrenheit scale to varying extents, including Belize, Burma, Liberia, Palau and a few of the historically British-influenced Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica. Weather temperatures in some parts of Canada and Great Britain are occasionally reported in degrees Fahrenheit, mainly for the benefit of older residents who grew up accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, prior to their governments' conversion to the metric system." Majority of the world uses the metric system. You guys need to convert to it >_> We don't NEED to convert to anything... Honestly, we do it makes conversion between all nations uniform. Imagine if you tried to tell someone you don't agree with the standard measure of time...and you were different than every other country...They'd call you looney. That's basically what the US is doing by not using Metric lmao.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 13:44:53
Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: "The vast majority of the world's countries use the Celsius scale to measure temperature. The United States is the only sizable nation in which widespread use of the Fahrenheit scale persists. A handful of smaller countries still use the Fahrenheit scale to varying extents, including Belize, Burma, Liberia, Palau and a few of the historically British-influenced Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica. Weather temperatures in some parts of Canada and Great Britain are occasionally reported in degrees Fahrenheit, mainly for the benefit of older residents who grew up accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, prior to their governments' conversion to the metric system." Majority of the world uses the metric system. You guys need to convert to it >_> We don't NEED to convert to anything... Honestly, we do it makes conversion between all nations uniform. Imagine if you tried to tell someone you don't agree with the standard measure of time...and you were different than every other country...They'd call you looney. That's basically what the US is doing by not using Metric lmao. So what you're saying is if most of the people are doing it you should do it too?
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 13:45:55
Don't a handful of eurpean countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark all teach their citizens to speak english?
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By Asura.Vyre 2011-06-10 13:52:26
Ramuh.Urial said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: We've had 30s and high humidity lol >_> That's every day for the past month for me! And will be that way through like mid Sept! Yeah ok I'll give you that one....was drunk playing croquet with my friends in Sweden...check the time 930pm and the suns up...wtf?!?! That totally threw me off...but omg it gets cold for those 3 hours of night! You mean until early October. >.>; <,<; >.>;
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 13:57:19
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Don't a handful of eurpean countries like Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark all teach their citizens to speak english?
We all learn English and one or more languages. I took 4 years of Spanish and 2 years of German.
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By Odin.Headstrong 2011-06-10 14:06:26
In Germany it's English and either French or Latin on most schools. Starting at age 10-11~
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By Odin.Liela 2011-06-10 14:07:53
I so wish they started teaching American kids another language starting at a young age. It's so frustrating to try and learn another language when you are already grown!
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 14:08:44
We learn English from age 7 then at 13 we get to choose between Spanish/German/French and then at 16ish you get to choose between continuing what you learned before or learning a new language. Most schools offer Spanish/German/French/Italian but some offer others, like Mandarin or Japanese. We continue with English for as long as we're in school too.
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By Fairy.Spence 2011-06-10 14:09:52
We 'learn' French here. The classes are mostly useless unless you're in French immersion.
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By Odin.Headstrong 2011-06-10 14:12:52
Bismarck.Dracondria said: We learn English from age 7 then at 13 we get to choose between Spanish/German/French and then at 16ish you get to choose between continuing what you learned before or learning a new language. Most schools offer Spanish/German/French/Italian but some offer others, like Mandarin or Japanese. We continue with English for as long as we're in school too. I wish we had options like that here :| I chose Latin and it was just terrible.. lol
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 14:13:04
How many people are taught to speak Swedish around the world?
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 14:13:29
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: "The vast majority of the world's countries use the Celsius scale to measure temperature. The United States is the only sizable nation in which widespread use of the Fahrenheit scale persists. A handful of smaller countries still use the Fahrenheit scale to varying extents, including Belize, Burma, Liberia, Palau and a few of the historically British-influenced Caribbean nations, such as Jamaica. Weather temperatures in some parts of Canada and Great Britain are occasionally reported in degrees Fahrenheit, mainly for the benefit of older residents who grew up accustomed to the Fahrenheit scale, prior to their governments' conversion to the metric system." Majority of the world uses the metric system. You guys need to convert to it >_> We don't NEED to convert to anything... Honestly, we do it makes conversion between all nations uniform. Imagine if you tried to tell someone you don't agree with the standard measure of time...and you were different than every other country...They'd call you looney. That's basically what the US is doing by not using Metric lmao. So what you're saying is if most of the people are doing it you should do it too? I'm saying with how connected the world is now a days you have to.
The world is far different now than it was even 100 years ago. You can get anywhere within a day. Messages transfer instantly. At some point measures need to be universal and you'd be foolish to see that any other way. You should try not being so stubborn and accept that the system used in America is a dumb hand-me-down system that we inherited from England.
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While on this subject I'll bring about a great point. Notice how many people in the world use English as though it has become the universal language of business? That is the rest of the world is with measurements too. Except we're the idiot country who can't fall in line
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 14:15:10
Inches, feet, yards, miles etc are stupid too.
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By Shiva.Nikolce 2011-06-10 14:16:16
it's almost time to run out the door screaming....
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 14:16:45
Bismarck.Dracondria said: Inches, feet, yards, miles etc are stupid too. That's what I was saying...the increments make absolutely no sense....where as with metric it is standard and if you can't figure out things go by 10's you're an idiot.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 14:17:01
You should learn that insulting someone or the things they use are accustomed does actually nothing to convince people to side with you yet leads more to them siding against you...
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 14:18:13
Lakshmi.Flavin said: You should learn that insulting someone or the things they use are accustomed does actually nothing to convince people to side with you yet leads more to hem siding against you... You should learn some sense then and stop being stubborn.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 14:19:31
Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: You should learn that insulting someone or the things they use are accustomed does actually nothing to convince people to side with you yet leads more to hem siding against you... You should learn some sense then and stop being stubborn. :D Your opinion and thats all it is...
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 14:20:27
And obviously most of the world's.
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 14:21:32
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: You should learn that insulting someone or the things they use are accustomed does actually nothing to convince people to side with you yet leads more to hem siding against you... You should learn some sense then and stop being stubborn. :D Your opinion and thats all it is... More like the worlds opinion...
But go ahead. Please give a valid argument explaining why the Imperial System is so superior.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 14:25:01
Bismarck.Dracondria said: And obviously most of the world's. Again, tell me how many people outside of sweden take the time to learn your native language...
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 14:26:24
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: And obviously most of the world's. Again, tell me how many people outside of sweden take the time to learn your native language...
Because a language is the same as a unit of measurement? Lol.
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By Valefor.Slipispsycho 2011-06-10 14:28:08
In some ways, actually, yes.. Language follows a set of rules, so do measurements.
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By Lakshmi.Flavin 2011-06-10 14:30:55
Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: Ramuh.Urial said: Lakshmi.Flavin said: You should learn that insulting someone or the things they use are accustomed does actually nothing to convince people to side with you yet leads more to hem siding against you... You should learn some sense then and stop being stubborn. :D Your opinion and thats all it is... More like the worlds opinion... But go ahead. Please give a valid argument explaining why the Imperial System is so superior. Personally, I don't think most of the world takes the time to worry about if I'm being stubborn about this but I would be flattered ^^... Why should we change something if we don't want to? It's not causing a global meltdown... I've never really heard much of an argument against it other then more people outside of the states use it and therefore Americans should use it too because that would make it so we all use the same stuff! Honestly until it or if it ever becomes an real issue then I don't see a need to change the system of measurement here in the states... I mean its not like its outlawed to use the metric system here... simple conversion tables are readily available...
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By Ramuh.Urial 2011-06-10 14:31:18
Lakshmi.Flavin said: Bismarck.Dracondria said: And obviously most of the world's. Again, tell me how many people outside of sweden take the time to learn your native language... Fun fact. You can major at schools in Swedish.
No where outside of the US is the a major in worthless measurements.
So in a ratio...the number of people outside Imperial System using countries who understand Imperial system would probably be less than the number of people outside of Sweden who speak Swedish. At one point Sweden had dominate control over Northern Europe and thus a majority of Finland is fluent in Swedish.
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By Bismarck.Dracondria 2011-06-10 14:34:38
Norwegian schools used to teach in Swedish and we used to teach in Norwegian in Norwegian/Swedish class. It was so that we would be more fluent in our neighbouring country's language.
This is a thread that I found on another website I post at. It can be really really interesting. I thought it deserved a place here.
Post your random thoughts for the day here, or anything else that intrigues you.
For starters, is it possible to give constructive critism to someone who doesn't have a neck? I totally just walked by a girl who didn't. Someone isn't getting a necklace for Valentines day!
And who decided black and white can't be colors? I want to say a racist. I really do.
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