[lostlogin]

Where does the ‘humanist’ bit end?

Should we go back to fathoms, furlongs, chains, drams and bushels?

This was settled a long time ago for the vast majority of the word.

[fuzztester]

Just for fun, check the yojana and related Indian measures:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yojana

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_measurement_syste...

[throwanem]

Now, ironically given I'm for all serious purposes an English monoglot, you're speaking my language. Give me lakh and crore! Give me weights and measures where I can feel the history. Just like my mad 5,280-foot (1,360-yard) mile, which I love.

And give me also the precise rational tenths-and-tens units, too, of course, for when we need accuracy more than soul. I work in thou all the time! All I've really been saying is, there's a place in the world for both ways of doing things. Why's everyone else so hellbent on having exactly one or the other?

[bregma]

It's far more impressive to express gravity in units of stone furlong per fortnight squared. It's 7.14 x 10^10. Makes gravity on Jupiter look puny.

[throwanem]

It's that plus or minus about three orders, sure.

[throwanem]

If we should find they serve us better, why not?

[nancyminusone]

>bushels

Someone hasn't been to an apple orchard recently.