Didn't NASA lose a space probe because of a metric/english conversion error? I can't remember which probe it was.
I don't have much of a notion where it might lead. If I knew what would come of it, I'd skip the intermediate step and go right for the goal. :) I'm sure I've read some review of national languages and gender equality, and it found some sort of correlation between the two. Maybe it was the gender-neutral languages which first promoted the equality concept? I can't remember. :(
I would hope that a year-system that makes some logical sense would help everyone to better think of our history on this planet in terms of changes and transitions (of languages, empires, religions, everything). Our non-zero-year with backward-positive-years calendar confuses me, if no one else.
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Date: 2010-Feb-21, Sunday 12:42 am (UTC)I don't have much of a notion where it might lead. If I knew what would come of it, I'd skip the intermediate step and go right for the goal. :) I'm sure I've read some review of national languages and gender equality, and it found some sort of correlation between the two. Maybe it was the gender-neutral languages which first promoted the equality concept? I can't remember. :(
I would hope that a year-system that makes some logical sense would help everyone to better think of our history on this planet in terms of changes and transitions (of languages, empires, religions, everything). Our non-zero-year with backward-positive-years calendar confuses me, if no one else.