I laughed for a full 60 seconds upon reading this. Anyway, vulgar Latin, proper Latin, French, English, whatever ... They all have a common root. Babylonian of course. I know what you mean. There's a topic about how we don't use the metric system, there's a topic about how our government is run by a bunch of lunatics, and now there's this. When are you people going to stop? Our language? C'mon, it's starting to sound like some people are just desperate to bash America... Nah, but see I'm partially responsible for creating this thread (I was the one who messaged Sunli after he pulled these posts out of the other thread) and I'm from America. I enjoy bashing Americans just as much as everyone else. And our government -is- made up of lunatics, and the standard measurement system -is- less efficient than metric, and really we are fat pompous silly persons ... The customory system is just fine. It's really not hard to memorize 12in = 1ft and 5,280ft = 1mi. So what if the intervals aren't right on a tenth? Our government is run by lunatics to some people and to others, our government is run by intelligent people. Not all of us our obese, many are but not all. There is no point in bashing Americans and if you find that it's fun, then your not very intelligent...