One of the reasons I hate living in the US (1 Viewer)

[bulletproof]

I am so lost with imperial units despite being in US for 6 months

 

[Willow]

Pour moi aussi!!
J'ai appris l'anglais quand j'étais plus jeune

Je peux comprendre :))
Anyways we should go back to the real conversation 😂 even if that one was really interesting

 

[RandAlThor]

I don't know if these are american, but what i find annoying when writing in English and online:

- 12 hour system instead of 24 hour system. 3PM and 3AM makes less sense to me than 15.00 and 03.00.
- Putting months before days in dates. 1.31.2020 makes less sense than 31.1.2020 to me.

January 31 2020 1 31 20 every time :)

January first make more sense than the first of January and its shorter to say.

its not my fault the rest of the world has subject predicate issues. :)

 

[Ahsoka]

Ah je pense que l'allemand est plus difficile pour les francophones non?
C'est facile pour moi parce que c'est comme le néerlandais
Pour nous, le français et des autres langues comme l'espagnol est un peut plus difficile

Oui c’est difficile ... mais l’anglais était plus facile pour moi, a part la prononciation

Please keep convos in english guys

I use both, but pm and am are just easier tho
It's just before and after noon, nothing too confusing lmao.
Interestingly enough, we use the AM/PM system more commonly despite being a British colony earlier and following the British spellings.



Isn't the rule to just place commas after every 3 digits from the right?

So it would be 1,200,547,190.

Although in India, we use the comma for 3 digits from the right, but after that for every 2 digits lmao. So in our country it would look like 1,20,05,47,190

Yeah it is, but I guess not in Belgium
I think it makes things easier

 

[Belgizen]

Please keep convos in english guys


Yeah it is, but I guess not in Belgium
I think it makes things easier

Are you mad when I speak French?
Belgium superior country we knew

 

[Ahsoka]

Are you mad when I speak French?
Belgium superior country we knew

No but it is against the rules

 

[blueberries]

I use both, but pm and am are just easier tho
It's just before and after noon, nothing too confusing lmao.
Interestingly enough, we use the AM/PM system more commonly despite being a British colony earlier and following the British spellings.



Isn't the rule to just place commas after every 3 digits from the right?

So it would be 1,200,547,190.

Although in India, we use the comma for 3 digits from the right, but after that for every 2 digits lmao. So in our country it would look like 1,20,05,47,190

It's not that hard but I still remember that we had to learn it in English class since the concept wasn't familiar to us and it took sometime to grasp as kid xd There is some other stuff in english clock that is said differently though. Halves, in English you would say half past five meaning 5:30, but in Finnish you would always say half six when you are meaning 5.30. This is sth i get confused about even now, if someone says half five to me it's 4:30 xd

In terms of digits discourse.. we usually use digits only when having decimals not with big numbers. I wouldn't really know how to read that number. I'd start thinking it's 1,20 but then getting confused with other decimals. Even the distribution to numbers is weird to me ^^; It would be just 1 200 547 190 here.

January 31 2020 1 31 20 every time :)

January first make more sense than the first of January and its shorter to say.

its not my fault the rest of the world has subject predicate issues. :)

I wonder if it's about what makes more sense to say aloud and what makes more sense written. To me it makes more sense to write down 16 than 4PM, but it makes sense to say it' four instead it's sixteen. Same with the dates makes more sense to write it down day first since it's smallest amount of time. If you start with month there is no order. But January thirtyone makes sense over thirtyone of januay

Though it's somewha due to language differences as well.

 

[Belgizen]

No but it is against the rules

Which rules?

Punish me daddy

 

[Ahsoka]

Which rules?

Punish me daddy

The official language of the forum is English. This allows all users to participate in conversations and helps moderators supervise the forum. Not everyone is fluent in English, and that is perfectly okay. This is a community where users help each other, so do not be afraid to make a mistake. Talking in languages other than English is allowed for a couple of posts if you find someone who speaks your language, but a thread solely in one foreign language is against the rules. Of course, common expressions such as "c'est la vie", "de gustibus non est disputandum" and other majorly used phrases are allowed.

 

[Belgizen]

The official language of the forum is English. This allows all users to participate in conversations and helps moderators supervise the forum. Not everyone is fluent in English, and that is perfectly okay. This is a community where users help each other, so do not be afraid to make a mistake. Talking in languages other than English is allowed for a couple of posts if you find someone who speaks your language, but a thread solely in one foreign language is against the rules. Of course, common expressions such as "c'est la vie", "de gustibus non est disputandum" and other majorly used phrases are allowed.

spank me

 

[RandAlThor]

I wonder if it's about what makes more sense to say aloud and what makes more sense written. To me it makes more sense to write down 16 than 4PM, but it makes sense to say it' four instead it's sixteen. Same with the dates makes more sense to write it down day first since it's smallest amount of time. If you start with month there is no order. But January thirtyone makes sense over thirtyone of januay

Though it's somewha due to language differences as well.

I think languages were spoken first and writing should convey the spoken word as delivered if at all possible.
But at the end of the day its what a person was taught that is ingrained in the system that most stick with.
I struggle to even read ddMMyy with out really thinking about it. Although in my job i have to format dates in so many ways that i can do it easier when in 'work mode'. I am fond of ccyyMMddhhmmssffff ect timestamps as a unique identifier.

 

[Shimmer]

Sometimes for classes we'll actually get problems using imperial units and I'm sorry but who tf came up with these?

How many meters are in a kilometer? 1000
How many milliliters are in a liter? 1000
What is the density of water? 1000 kilograms per meter cubed
What is the gravity constant? 9.8, everyone knows this

How many feet are in a mile? 5280
How many ounces are in a gallon? 128
What is the density of water? 62.4 pounds per foot cubed
What is the gravity constant? 32.17

I'm perfectly fine with SI units thank you very much, I don't want to deal with imperial units but we have to sometimes because Murica

I'm too used to the normal Sl units so I always get confused once in a while. On the side note I'll never get used to MM/DD/YY rather than DD/MM/YY , this made me pause for a good minute whenever I have to write the date.

 

[Ahsoka]

I'm too used to the normal Sl units so I always get confused once in a while. On the side note I'll never get used to MM/DD/YY rather than DD/MM/YY , this made me pause for a good minute whenever I have to write the date.

To be honest I always forget how to write the date too and I live in the US

 

[Shimmer]

To be honest I always forget how to write the date too and I live in the US

When you think about this future historians must be real confused if they are reading documents since the day and month can be easily mixed up 😂

 

[Ahsoka]

When you think about this future historians must be real confused if they are reading documents since the day and month can be easily mixed up 😂

That's why I like 13th and up, at that point you can't mix it up

 

[daesuki]

Sometimes for classes we'll actually get problems using imperial units and I'm sorry but who tf came up with these?

How many meters are in a kilometer? 1000
How many milliliters are in a liter? 1000
What is the density of water? 1000 kilograms per meter cubed
What is the gravity constant? 9.8, everyone knows this

How many feet are in a mile? 5280
How many ounces are in a gallon? 128
What is the density of water? 62.4 pounds per foot cubed
What is the gravity constant? 32.17

I'm perfectly fine with SI units thank you very much, I don't want to deal with imperial units but we have to sometimes because Murica

I’ve been confused ever since I came from France and it’s been a while jdjdjdkkdkdd. I only remember feet and miles from five tomatoes ugh

 

[VillageIdiot]

Well 24 hour clock is pretty common where I am. We say either it's 15 or it's 3 when we mean 3PM, but we don't have thing like PM or AM. At most we would say that something is streaming at 3 in the night. But if you look when shops are open they aren't open until 9PM, they are until 21.00

HOW DO YOU LIBE LIKE THAT????

 

[Ahsoka]

I’ve been confused ever since I came from France and it’s been a while jdjdjdkkdkdd. I only remember feet and miles from five tomatoes ugh

Most Americans don't know it so that's impressive

 

[daesuki]

Most Americans don't know it so that's impressive

Tumblr can be helpful

 

[Darkseid]

It's not that hard but I still remember that we had to learn it in English class since the concept wasn't familiar to us and it took sometime to grasp as kid xd There is some other stuff in english clock that is said differently though. Halves, in English you would say half past five meaning 5:30, but in Finnish you would always say half six when you are meaning 5.30. This is sth i get confused about even now, if someone says half five to me it's 4:30 xd

In terms of digits discourse.. we usually use digits only when having decimals not with big numbers. I wouldn't really know how to read that number. I'd start thinking it's 1,20 but then getting confused with other decimals. Even the distribution to numbers is weird to me ^^; It would be just 1 200 547 190 here.

Lol we didn't have that problem with halves here
The keyword is "past" so half past five is after 5 aka 5:30 while half five might be 4:30 lol. Although I've never heard someone use half five, that would make me think it's 2.5

Oh but I think it will actually be harder to say big numbers without commas. Like 546000000 by itself makes me pause and take time to see how much it actually is. But 546,000,000 makes it simpler to say it's 546 million just by looking at it.