XPost: alt.usage.english
From: charles@candehope.me.uk

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.

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