06 Nov 04 03:30, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Joe Delahaye:


 >>> As example in the word colour vs the proper spelling.

 JD>> Nah, that only means the yanks cant spell.

 BF>    That's underestimating the USAians, Joe! They know perfectly well
 BF> how a word like 'colour' *should* be spelled.

You wouldn't know the difference if you were an English scholar.

 BF> But they insist on doing it the US way, just as with gallons and a
 BF> lot of other measurements. They are even hanging on to Fahrenheit,
 BF> now that every other English speaking country has adopted the Celsius
 BF> scale, decades ago.

You're so full of shit, you continously make your self out to be an ass.
The diversety of the USA is such that both measurements are used. Here, we
can make that choice without going balistic about what the rest of the
world does.

 BF>    I guess it'll take more than a generation before all those
 BF> backward USAians finally join the rest of the world on the metric
 BF> system.

LOL! See above. I and many others work in metrics everyday.

 BF> The military and the scientists already did so, a long time
 BF> ago, but the vast, uneducated, majority of the US people, just don't
 BF> seem to be able to accept, that anything with French origin can
 BF> become a world-wide standard.

LOL! Stupid is as stupid says...you're proving it everytime you spout off
about something you don't know shit about.

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