Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days ago[deleted]message-squaremessage-square94linkfedilinkarrow-up138arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up134arrow-down1message-square[deleted]Cyril Strobe@sh.itjust.works to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square94linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·3 days agoI don’t know two languages but being in the US means I am fluent in both metric and imperial.
minus-squareSwingingTheLamp@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days 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-up2·3 days 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-up4·3 days agoYeah, but how else are we gonna rile up this comment section?
minus-squarecattywampas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 days agoHonestly. It’s not hard to know both.
minus-square[deleted]@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days 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.