ok3 said:
DrevniDabar said:
Bah, I hate English and American measures for height and weight.
Stones, pounds, inches, feet... That is all stone-age measuring, I say.
We don't use stones? But anyway, why do you think it's stone-age measuring?
But English do use stones.
Well I used the term ''stone-age measuring'' because that method of measuring is older, and less accurate, or at least that's what they say.
Also, the names of those measures sound older (stone-age) because they involve feet and stones.
I mean, it would be the same if we in Serbia still used our old measurements, for example:
thumb - the width of the thumb, used when pouring a drink
pedalj - the length from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger, when stretched
foot - same as feet
elbow - it was very popular once, the length from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger
the step - the length of average human step when walking
spear - spear-length, about 2m (or 6,6 feet
)
arrowrange and riflerange - the distance to which bow (and later rifle) can fire
And those are only the examples for length, there are even more for weight and others. Every nation had their own measures, but the problem is that they are different from country to country, or even from town to town, and are not accurate. I am a traditionalist but I think it would be silly and impractical if we still used our old measures.
I read somewhere that in the US conscitution stands that the country's official m. system is Metric.
The problem was that it wasn't forbidden by Constitution for Americans to use the old system, and that's why most people didn't transfer to metric.