When you ask: How many ounces in a cup? (Part 2)

Here is a small series of posts that cover the most asked ques­tions on Google. Most of these ques­tions won’t be ans­we­red here. Howe­ver, I might, for fun, give an ans­wer if I per­so­nal­ly know it. It’s most­ly to have fun with why people ask so many questions.

There was some­thing about this topic that I didn’t men­tion. I first tal­ked about the sim­pli­ci­ty of the metric sys­tem com­pa­red to the impe­rial sys­tem. The for­mer being, in my opi­nion, more uni­ver­sal and simple to use, the lat­ter more poe­tic but dif­fi­cult to mas­ter. Of course, those who alrea­dy mas­ter it will say that it’s simple, give us examples to help us, encou­rage us not to give up, etc, etc.

The fact is that this sys­tem is like a new lan­guage with its subt­le­ties and is a relic of the past. It is based on pre­vious means, per­haps even wri­ting, and new units of mea­su­re­ment have been sim­pli­fied and will obvious­ly take over. Chi­na and India, which also have their own mea­su­re­ment sys­tems, will also convert unless their sys­tems are sim­pler than the deci­mal system.

The fun­ny thing about this ques­tion, which is the eighth most popu­lar, is that although the ans­wer is remar­ka­bly simple (it’s 8, by the way), in my opi­nion, it is a fai­lure of this archaic sys­tem that I mas­ter and use eve­ry day.

-Dan­ny

I’m Dan­ny (aka Coa­ch­Dan­ny). I have a pas­sion: humans. Come with me and take this minute eve­ry day to explore what’s going on today and why is it tren­ding. Click here to get your dai­ly thought right on time for break­fast.

Sources: https://solomotivation.com

Trans­la­tion by Abbie Sims: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acsims/

Last Upda­ted on Sep­tem­ber 13, 2021 by Coach Dan­ny