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From: Beav on 7 Nov 2009 07:14 "Twibil" <nowayjose6(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:72676237-6fb3-4e06-98fe-f4da74effb2e(a)12g2000pri.googlegroups.com... On Nov 5, 6:05 pm, BrianNZ <br...(a)itnz.co.nz> wrote: > > >> Why aren't the US metric? >No, it's "Why *isn't* the US metric?" Mmm, I thought the United States is a collection of more than one, so IS it "isn't"? Had it been "Why isn't the United State metric" you may be right. But.... >And the answers are: >(A) It costs a huge chunk of change to convert a big, highly >industrialized nation like to US completely over to metric. (Sheep are >automatically metric, so NZ had no investment worth speaking of.) > >(B) We're still officially on our original system, but metrics are >slowly taking over in many fields; and there's no doubt we'll get >there eventually. But we'll do it a millimeter at a time rather than >all at once. >And the next question is: "Why don't the NZ schools teach their kids >the difference between plural and singular?" A question I'm sat here pondering myself, but not about NZ. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
From: S'mee on 7 Nov 2009 11:01 On Nov 7, 2:18 am, "Vito" <v...(a)cfl.rr.com> wrote: > "Sean_Q_" <no.s...(a)no.spam> wrote in messagenews:hd0c68$n1s$1(a)aioe.org... > | Rob Kleinschmidt wrote: > > | >http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/ > | > | Why do the classic Brit retro bikes have to be so bloated? > | > Electric starters. Well there's a bullshit non-answer...
From: S'mee on 7 Nov 2009 11:03 On Nov 7, 5:04 am, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: > "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:a55a9cd4-3737-4820-a344-4c19cda6e080(a)g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... > On Nov 5, 1:54 pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: > > >http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/ > >You sir are a very, very bad man. 8^) Let's not mention the bike that > >is nominally coming out was designed by americans. ;^) > > Not that it was based on a design done in the 50's by some Brit blokes :-) > Nope...nice try. I remember (vaguely) when they got started here over in Oregeon. Only thing british was the outside appearances and IIRC maybe some fiddly bits.
From: Bob Mann on 7 Nov 2009 11:57 "Beav" <beavis.original(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote in news:mxdJm.9139$s_4.2287(a)newsfe02.ams2: > Mmm, I thought the United States is a collection of more than one, so > IS it "isn't"? > > Had it been "Why isn't the United State metric" you may be right. > But.... > Grammar shifts accross the oceans. In North America, a collective noun is considered singular as in one collection. In Britain it's considered plural as in a group of individuals. -- Bob Mann Cap'n, ah need moor pow'r.
From: BrianNZ on 7 Nov 2009 16:32
S'mee wrote: > On Nov 7, 5:04 am, "Beav" <beavis.origi...(a)ntlwoxorld.com> wrote: >> "S'mee" <stevenkei...(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message >> >> news:a55a9cd4-3737-4820-a344-4c19cda6e080(a)g1g2000pra.googlegroups.com... >> On Nov 5, 1:54 pm, Rob Kleinschmidt <Rkleinsch1216...(a)aol.com> wrote: >> >>> http://www.nortonmotorcycles.com/ >>> You sir are a very, very bad man. 8^) Let's not mention the bike that >>> is nominally coming out was designed by americans. ;^) >> Not that it was based on a design done in the 50's by some Brit blokes :-) >> > > Nope...nice try. I remember (vaguely) when they got started here over > in Oregeon. Only thing british was the outside appearances and IIRC > maybe some fiddly bits. > 'outside appearance' = 'design'? |