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produnis@discuss.tchncs.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

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produnis@discuss.tchncs.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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    Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm

    The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire

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      Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho

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      Hm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale

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      Metres*

      Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)

      Metre is a unit of measurement

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        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

        Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it’s also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands

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          Metr in Czech.

          We just have to be special. :-D

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            Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.

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          But well he translated the rest of his post into English

          Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit

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