Comments Thread For: Adam Azim and Sergey Lipinets both come in heavy ahead of Saturday?s super lightweight fight

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Adam Azim and Sergey Lipinets have two hours to make the super lightweight limit
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[Left Hook Louie]

So BoxingScene, any chance you could also provide their weights in pounds and ounces in addition to your stones and pebbles?
It would add depth to the substance of your article for Americans who do not understand the rocks and stones system of weights and measures.
Is that all a Druid holdover?

[Boxeo2012]

So why isn't the American weight system translated to? So all boxingscene readers are British? Exclude Americans i guess

[TScott2254]

Literally it's not hard to do a quick search. 10 stone is 140 lbs and 12 stone is 168 lbs.

[anonymous2.0]

Weird that they would mix measuring systems together. We don't say "He was driving a dozen miles and 3 kilometers over the speed limit". Isn't this just an admission that using stone as a measuring unit is bad? Instead of saying he weighed 10 stone and 1 pound, shouldn't it be 'he weighed 10.071 stone'?

[crimsonfalcon07]

Weird that they would mix measuring systems together. We don't say "He was driving a dozen miles and 3 kilometers over the speed limit". Isn't this just an admission that using stone as a measuring unit is bad? Instead of saying he weighed 10 stone and 1 pound, shouldn't it be 'he weighed 10.071 stone'?

No, stone is just an additional measurement from the English measurement system, from which pounds and ounces come from, which Americans didn't adopt. It's still part of the parent measurement system, and frankly, if my fellow Americans are too ****** to understand other measurements in the system, even with the ability to look it up, that's on them. You'd use tons, stone, pounds, and ounces depending on which applied. 141.5 lbs would be 10 stone 1 lb 8 ounces, for instance, but 64.2 kilos.

A different measurement system would be metric, which the rest of the world uses. It's not like they were using stone and grams though.

[BustedKnuckles]

Literally it's not hard to do a quick search. 10 stone is 140 lbs and 12 stone is 168 lbs.

For that matter, they could write the article in Spanish and I could use Google translate. Just write it so readers understand, otherwise whats the point of writing it?

[BustedKnuckles]

and frankly, if my fellow Americans are too ****** to understand other measurements in the system, even with the ability to look it up, that's on them.

Before you congratulate yourself too much, or try too hard to put others down, how many foreign languge news sources do you read?

None right?

but Google translate makes it easy to just "look it up".

If you write, write to your readers. Any beginner journalism, creative writing, or marketing class will agree.

[crimsonfalcon07]

For that matter, they could write the article in Spanish and I could use Google translate. Just write it so readers understand, otherwise whats the point of writing it?

It wasn't that hard to understand. The article literally says they were above the 10 stone limit for super lightweight. So they're above by 1 pound and 5 ounces respectively. What's so hard about that? You should know that super light is 140, and the fight is taking place at Wembley and most readers who care about this fight understand the concept of stone, which is extremely common in British boxing.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Before you congratulate yourself too much, or try too hard to put others down, how many foreign languge news sources do you read?

None right?

but Google translate makes it easy to just "look it up".

If you write, write to your readers. Any beginner journalism, creative writing, or marketing class will agree.

Way to make wrong assumptions. In this era, it's easy to access foreign news sources, and I regularly read articles from all over the world. Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, AP, Reuters, BBC, Guardian, Telegraph, SCMP, etc. US news media is usually horribly biased thanks to the death of the Fairness in Reporting doctrine, so you need to expand your sources if you actually want to read decent content.

You think Americans are the primary readership for an article about a boxing event taking place at Wembley? FOH. There's no need to cater to ignorant Americans who aren't even watching the event anyways.