Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months ago[deleted]message-squaremessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-square[deleted]Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 months agomessage-square94linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 months agoI don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoBritain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoAnd yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoYeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoHonestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
I don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
Britain uses Imperial, we use US Customary units. There is a difference. (They get more beer in a pint, for one.)
And yet nobody brings that technicality up during those discussions because the terminology is the same since it is just a different version of the same thing.
Yeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
Honestly. It’s not hard to know both.
I’ll bet you are smug in multiple languages.
Si verdad.