Lemmy.one
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
produnis@discuss.tchncs.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2年前

the land of the f...

discuss.tchncs.de

message-square
151
fedilink
1.15K

the land of the f...

discuss.tchncs.de

produnis@discuss.tchncs.de to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2年前
message-square
151
fedilink
  • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    35
    ·
    2年前

    Rest of the world: meters, cm, mm

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

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      2年前

    • nyctre@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2年前

      Pretty sure king crimson are English, still pretty accurate tho

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      2年前

      Metres*

      Meter is a measuring device (like a rain meter)

      Metre is a unit of measurement

      • Bronco1676@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        19
        ·
        edit-2
        2年前

        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

        • tslnox@reddthat.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          6
          ·
          2年前

          Metr in Czech.

          We just have to be special. :-D

          • crispy_kilt@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2年前

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

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          2年前

          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

    • TacoNissan@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2年前

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

Memes@lemmy.ml

memes@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !memes@lemmy.ml

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 507 users / day
  • 2.03K users / week
  • 5.66K users / month
  • 14.9K users / 6 months
  • 623 local subscribers
  • 55.7K subscribers
  • 15.9K Posts
  • 335K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • ghost_laptop@lemmy.ml
  • Cyclohexane@lemmy.ml
  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.7
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org