"Matt" wrote in message
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Well shore I can, partner!

Pretend you are a home builder. Now, someone comes to you and says: I
want my garage to be 23 feet deep. So you build the house, and screw up
and make the garage 22 feet deep. OOOOOPS!

Now, pretend you are a different builder, and the buyer asks you to
build his garage 8 meters deep. Now you build the house, and because
you are making the garage 8 meters deep, instead of 23 feet - it gets
built properly. HOORAY!


Maybe, but I do work with metric and I do prefer to use it. I still see
errors made. I've seen 12 mm holes where they should be 13mm What is to
say it would not have been built 7 meters or 7.5 meters? Or 9 meters.
People that do not read in English do not read in other languages also.