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On Thu, 10/2/14, Jeffrey Schwartz <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Because Britain won't be a major power...
 To: "tml" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>, "Tim" <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 Date: Thursday, October 2, 2014, 6:10 AM

 On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at
 12:55 AM, Tim <xxxxxx@little-possums.net>
 wrote:
 > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at
 09:56:21PM +0000, Bruce Johnson wrote:
 >> …until they can lithobrake their own
 mars probes:
 >>
 >> <http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/sep/30/david-cameron-schools-should-teach-mainly-in-imperial-measurements>

 > I guess in the Imperium,
 this sort of espousing the teaching of native
 > idiosyncratic measurements might result in
 a discreet visit from
 > representatives
 of the Office of Calendar Compliance.  Except of
 > course that the names may well be
 reversed.  Would the official system
 >
 of the Third Imperium be called Imperial measurements?
 >

 I'd
 guess there'd be two major measurement systems: Vilani
 and Solomani
 I'm not sure which the
 Syleans would have adopted, and thus would be
 the "primary" for the 3I...
 everything in the books being metric
 implies
 Solomani.

 But I can see a
 cogedy old Vilani man, with a cane, yelling "Get off
 my lawn! Stupid kids, using those meter sticks
 when they should be
 using <insert term
 here> because that is _traditional!_"
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However, the original UPP Diameter rating *did* indicate miles so the 'olde' were not completely homogenous.
Maybe the Solomani System just might retain some 'archaic' features?
Esp where Terra & the original Confed are concerned.
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