XPost: alt.usage.english   
   From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl   
      
   charles  wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >    Bertel Lund Hansen  wrote:   
   > > lar3ryca wrote:   
   >   
   > > >>>>          50 km = 30 mi   
   > > >>>>          80 km = 50 mi   
   > > >>>>        110 km = 70 mi (2 km too much)   
   > > >>>>        130 km = 80 mi   
   > > >>>   
   > > >>> 'mi' should be 'MPH'.   
   > > >>   
   > > >> No. km ~ mi   
   > > >   
   > > > Definitely not. A kilometre is not a speed, and a mile is not a speed.   
   >   
   > > Really? What a surprise.   
   >   
   > > I haven't said that they were. I showed conversion between two length   
   > > units. The intelligent reader would then immediately know that the same   
   > > conversion can be use by speeds.   
   >   
   > at least both measurement systems us the same time units.   
      
   Unfortunately, yes.   
   It would have been much better if the decimal seconds   
   had been succesfully introduced.   
      
   Jan   
      
   --   
   BTW, the weatherman in these parts uses 'Beaufort',   
   pronounced as if the admiral had been a Frenchman.   
   'Everyone' knows that storms begin at Beaufort seven,   
   few know with how many m/s or km/h that corresponds.   
      
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