Well, the metric system was never encouraged to be taught (or learned unless you’re a scientist) so for most the American readers we’re fine with this! Technically you’re correct but it really doesn’t take away from the read! It’s still a lovely story.
Well, the metric system was never encouraged to be taught (or learned unless you’re a scientist) so for most the American readers we’re fine with this! Technically you’re correct but it really doesn’t take away from the read! It’s still a lovely story.
I understand what you're saying, the story works and I'm in no way questioning that, I'm just trying to help with the little linguistic/cultural incongruences here -- if you set a story in a different country, you're supposed to make it plausible, which doesn't happen if you reason in miles, pounds, and gallons in an Italian setting, as much as it would sound off to mention kilograms or metres if the story was set in the US.
Moreover, reading usually enriches people (even reading fiction, yes) -- perhaps not in terms of $$$, but in terms of knowledge, as you can learn about other cultures. Widening one's knowledge somehow helps levelling things up. Thinking "we're American readers and we're fine with this" makes me itch because it means being fine with keeping things levelled down instead... 🤷🏻♀️
Well, the metric system was never encouraged to be taught (or learned unless you’re a scientist) so for most the American readers we’re fine with this! Technically you’re correct but it really doesn’t take away from the read! It’s still a lovely story.
I understand what you're saying, the story works and I'm in no way questioning that, I'm just trying to help with the little linguistic/cultural incongruences here -- if you set a story in a different country, you're supposed to make it plausible, which doesn't happen if you reason in miles, pounds, and gallons in an Italian setting, as much as it would sound off to mention kilograms or metres if the story was set in the US.
Moreover, reading usually enriches people (even reading fiction, yes) -- perhaps not in terms of $$$, but in terms of knowledge, as you can learn about other cultures. Widening one's knowledge somehow helps levelling things up. Thinking "we're American readers and we're fine with this" makes me itch because it means being fine with keeping things levelled down instead... 🤷🏻♀️