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Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years by arjie on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:22PM (#6234528)
I'm dying with laughter here. 'Controversial' describes this statement as well as it describes "I think the best way to cure cancer is to swallow large quantities of Drano".

You've essentially described a plan akin to converting everything in the US to New Metric (a system that is similar to metric but has 2.7182 as the scaling factor for centi, mega, and tera but 3.141 for kilo, 10 for giga, and the unit of length will be the new metre which corresponds to 0.707 of a mile). Everyone will be on the same system. It'll be great.

Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years by mitchty on Sunday August 18, 2013 @06:55PM (#6234633)
Is new metric the same thing that "metric inches" comes from?

Or is that just an aircraft manufacturing oddity?

Also, eww. But we americans do need to get on the metric train eventually.

Re:India’s lost 220 languages in past 50 years by jlgreco on Sunday August 18, 2013 @08:52PM (#6234994)
"New metric" sounds an awful lot like the current US system where a pound, for example, is defined as 0.45359237 kilograms.