Oh and that same book I mentioned yesterday? I'm really enjoying it and it's a Canadian author and set on the mainland which is really neat because she'll mention a location and my brain goes "I know where that is!" or "I know what she's implying by bringing up *that* neighbourhood!" but the other night one of the characters chose to walk home "even though it was a couple of miles" and I had to stop reading.
This is a CANADIAN book. By a CANADIAN author (I double checked the next day) and so seeing "miles" when we don't use miles, like ever, really took me out of the story. It's not mentioned that perhaps that character is from the States or anything like that and so I'm really not sure why that term was used. Even if it's easier to write... it's not a unit of measurement we use.
It really jarred my brain, which is funny because had the setting been in "not Canada" I likely wouldn't even have noticed.
Go figure eh?
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How old is the character? Having grown up during the transition to metric, I think of distances still in miles and feet, but speed in kilometers. Liquids as liters and ml, temp as centigrade... but for some reason distances just intuit better for me as miles/yards/feet.
Ok fair enough. He's unspecified "older" so 40? 50?
I'm in that age and have no memory of a transition to metric, will have to google.
Good info Jason!
I think you're just young enough (you little sprig) that you likely never got exposed to that partial UK Imperial measurements of my distant youth. I mean, it probably doesn't sound weird if someone tells you they're 187cm tall. Or are packing a whopping 203mm in their pants.
Yeah we're for sure a weird mix of measurements here ;)
And also *tee hee*
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