No, you definitely say "Turn right in 1,000 meters!"
One of my friends is fun and sweet--until you contradict her. Then she is a condescending know-it-all. She shared a video on Facebook about everything wrong with American drivers and the guy in the video said "You don't say `Turn right in 5,604 feet,' you say `Turn right in 1,000 meters!'"
I have spent far more time in the U.S. than Germany, but I have never heard either. How about you guys?
This is not an Imperial versus Metric debate. I do not understand why people even think there is a debate:
Unless you need to convert anything. Fractions of an inch, 12 inches per foot, three feet per yard, 1,760 yards per mile, and how many miles per parsec?
Fractions of an ounce, 16 ounces per pound, unless you mean the other ounces. Then there are fourteen.
Why fourteen?!
2,000 pounds per ton. Ounces, pounds, and ton? Are those the only common units of weight?
Fractions of teaspoon, three teaspoons per tablespoon, two tablespoons per ounce--no, fluid ounces--eight ounces per cup, two cups per pint. It comes in pints! Two pints per quart, four quarts per gallon, and the gallon is the largest unit of volume.
Miles per gallon makes the most sense because we do not really use larger units of either type?
640 acres per square mile, 231 square inches per gallon.
It's a mad world.
People who insist the English system is better must not ever convert, but I have known many people who refused to do math.
Anyway, do you say "Turn right in 5,604 feet" or "Turn right in 1,000 meters?"
Have a great night!
