The Anonymous Widower

The French are Complaining

According to The Times, the French are complaining that the official Olympic brochure is not available in French.

But if you do put it into French, do you use French French, which I can read or Canadian French, which I can’t and a lot of  French people  from France have been known to laugh at in the same way we treat American English.

In my view there might be a more serious problem on the various Olympic sites. All sports with the exception of football, cricket and one or two others are performed with respect to metric units. Even rugby talks about 10 and 22 metre lines!

So do we put up the signs inside the Olympic park with yards or metres.  As most of the competitors and spectators, think a yard is somewhere to keep your rubbish, we should use metres.

But I bet we don’t!

The only place I know in the UK, with metric signposts, is Liverpool University’s campus.

There is an e-petition on metrication here.

For those who are against this on account of it’s not the British thing to use metric units. I have never used Imperial units in business and don’t ever use them to measure anything.  My eldest child will be 43 this year and he didn’t even learn about Imperial units at school.

So why do we keep them?

March 17, 2012 - Posted by AnonW | News | France, Liverpool University, Metrication, Olympics