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minus-squarevrighter@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up52·11 months agobut why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
minus-squareCurlyMoustache@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·11 months agoRest of the world: meters, cm, mm The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
minus-squarenyctre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoPretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho
minus-squareTacoNissan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoHm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down6·11 months agoMetres* Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter) Metre is a unit of measurement
minus-squareBronco1676@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-211 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre Meter is seemingly the american spelling, it’s also spelled meter in many european countries e.g. germany, netherlands
minus-squaretslnox@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·11 months agoMetr in Czech. We just have to be special. :-D
minus-squarecrispy_kilt@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 months agoNah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoBut well he translated the rest of his post into English Why would we use the American spelling if they don’t like the unit
minus-squaresnaprails@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up9·11 months agoExcuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️
but why? you’ll still measure things in football fields, elephants or “large boulders” so it won’t affect you much
Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm
The US: gerbil teeth, lark tongues in aspic, toenail clippings on fire
Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho
Hm see, we don’t have aspic, and I don’t know what a lark is. But I definitely use bananas for scale
Metres*
Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)
Metre is a unit of measurement
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
Metr in Czech.
We just have to be special. :-D
Nah, it’s like that on most (all?) Slavic languages. It’s метр in Russian for example which is exactly metr just in Cyrillic.
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
Excuse me but the correct SI units for length and area are double-decker buses and Waleses respectively ☺️