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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:39:15 +0100
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Le 30/03/2026 à 06:48, Hibou a écrit :
> 
> "It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual 
> speakers in the world's population" -
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilingualism>
> 
> … and my guess would be that almost everyone masters more than one 
> dialect (posh and local). As with language, so with measurements? Why 
> not? The brain can cope. Indeed, it may be good for the brain to do a 
> few conversions once in a while - 1 mile = 1.609 km, 1" = 2.54 cm, 1 
> kilo = 2.2045 lb, 11 stones = 70 kg, etc.. A bit of mental arithmetic 
> may help to stop the neurons rotting away.


We accept that we use different languages for different purposes. "I 
speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my 
horse." More commonly these days, people use their own language at home 
and English internationally. Programmers code in C++, Javascript, or 
Python depending on the task. Where is it written that we cannot have 
two systems of measurement?

Do those who wish to impose the metric system for everything have a more 
imperial attitude than those who use Imperial?