Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "Exploring Modular Homes - Cheapest Path to Net Zero?" video.
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@barongerhardt There are times where you normally use feet but have other things being expressed as "half a mile". Which is 2640 feet in length. Oh yeah, I forgot about yards. Those I haven't used or was forced to use much.
Anyway, the age is not exactly an argument. I was using more as mocking, like neatherthal = uses foot, contemporary man = uses meters.
First, using "foot" as a measure does come from around the Bronze age. Of course it wasn't the exact foot we have now. But the idea is the same, just that now we have tools and conventions, so it's the same everywhere (well, almost everywhere, that's how "International foot" got to be a thing).
The meter is still superior in that it was designed from the start to not be something so subjective like a human foot or cubit or anything else human-related. First it was based on Earth's size, and quite soon a reference bar was created.
But to get back on in, ft, yd, miles, pounds, ounces, gallons and the rest, the real benefit of the metric system is indeed that it's all in base of 10. You might barely, if ever need to care about mm in the same sentence as Mm (1000 km), but it does matter immensily. Because you use small units there, which interacts with medium units elsewhere, which eventually matter for big units somewhere else. Not having headaches in converting is very useful, both in time and in chances of mistakes. Basically the context will never matter, since it's so easy to convert from one size to another.
Lastly, indeed, our current languages aren't neccessarily better because they are newer. On that, I do regret many new things because a lot of time they shed some old, useful things, just because they feel they won't need them or because they're expensive (like having a phone that can be used for 50 years, not what we have now with smartphones).
However, I do have to point that using NAMES in latin has nothing to do with the language being good. Speaking in latin is an ENTIRELY different thing. And, no, basically nobody (including scientists) is speaking latin, which I think you could say that it is counter-productive. I understand your argument, but your example here is really not good.
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