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Re: Metric Time (was Re: Why not 13 months? (Was La Systeme Metrique))
Solomon Taibi (taibi@ix.netcom.com)
14 Oct 1995 10:34:13 GMT
In <45j0r6$5tr@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
(Thomas Koenig) writes:
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>In alt.folklore.computers, don@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Don Stokes) wrote:
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>>v. Those *names*. I'd stop saying "miles" immediately if the
"official"
>> name for a kilometre changed to something that rolled off the
tounge as
>> easily. Here we call km "kays", but this offends my sense of
precision
>> in language (kay*whats*?).
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>In "The Mode in God's Eye", Niven and Pournelle have called the
>kilometer "klick" (oh Gad, two people from the US who like things
>METRIC? :-). How would that sound to you? :-)
Niven and Pournelle? "Klick" is US military slang.
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S. Taibi
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