Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏

7 months ago

Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏
7 months ago

#Imperial vs. #Metric System 🛠️

This is what happens every time my partner and I plan a road trip, build furniture, shop for beverages and basically perform any activity that involves measurements.

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Drawing of a character wearing a US-shirt and the Linguist. There are tools and wooden panels laying around.

The character with the US-shirt says "To convert from miles to feet you just have to remember "5 tomatoes". It sounds like 5, 2, 8, 0, and there are 5280 feet in one mile. Cool, huh?".

The Linguist says "To convert from kilometers to meters you just have to remember "1000" because our system wasn't invented by a drunken lobster".

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Zvonimir Stanecic

in reply to Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏 7 months ago

@tardis Yep... These feet, miles, yards and stuff. These should vanish and should be converted to the normal metrics system to avoid confusion. It is more accurate, especially when talking about somebody's height.

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Winter blue tardis

in reply to Zvonimir Stanecic 7 months ago

In a way, yes it is. In any case a 2meter cable is taller than me by a long while.

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Zvonimir Stanecic

in reply to Winter blue tardis 7 months ago

@tardis For example, in feet, i am roughly 6 ft 1 in. That's not an exact rounding of my 185 cm height. There are some millimeters up. Thanks god that we have metrics in Europe.

@Winter blue tardis