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- Thu Nov 30, 2023 10:14 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
Thankyou for validating my frustrations at not getting an actual answer even after making the actual question clear.
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 8:20 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
I'm asking why it should matter. Please explain, I am fascinated to know why you care about "precision". It's been explained several times, but since you're attached to your traditional, arbitrary, non-metric system you find defenses of someone else's traditional, arbitrary, non-metric sy...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 3:04 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
You would undoubtedly mention that Celsius offers greater precision at the integer level. Compared to Celsius, using this 5-to-5 system without resorting to decimals feels like using Pirahã to talk about math. Ah, yes, "undoubtedly" being a word which here means "not consider it wort...
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 4:08 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
It's more precise and the 0 and 100 points are more human-relevant. ... So? Seriously. Americans always say things like this but I don't see why it matters any. Look, both systems work in practice just fine for the people who are accustomed to using them. But if asked to choose between the two, I w...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 8:29 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 11:45 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
The real question, though, is where you stress the full form. Main stress on "me", with a secondary stress on "ki" for me. (When pronouncing words with four or more syllables, I find it very hard to avoid alternating stressed and unstressed syllables.) I might stress "lo&qu...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 10:37 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
What's wrong with '150cm' or '1.5m' (the height of my bookshelf, since you use that as an example)? I dunno about other places that use the metric system, but in colloquial German, the standard way to describe the height or length of things that are between one and two meters long/tall - such as mo...
- Tue Nov 28, 2023 5:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
Cms are too precise and metres too vague for normal everyday things (people, cars, furniture, small boats, windows, bookshelves, pianos, cows, etc.). ... What? Do you live in a world where you're only allowed to use integer amounts of a unit and you have to use the most precise measurement every ti...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 3:00 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Flaws with the Metric System
- Replies: 84
- Views: 14424
Re: Flaws with the Metric System
(3) Meters and liters are useful amounts to measure things on a typical human scale, but grams are not. Instead, one must use *kilo*grams. Imo, what we call a "kilogram" should've been called a "gram". This also prevents "kilogram" from having a short pithy word to ref...
- Sun Nov 26, 2023 8:52 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: So - what about crypto currencies?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3977
Re: So - what about crypto currencies?
What do you think is going to happen to cryptocurriencies They will, of course, never go away, but they'll probably become a more niche investment. If regulators catch up, though, I have no idea what might happen. It would depend a lot on how they get regulated. and how do you think we should react...
- Sat Nov 25, 2023 11:30 am
- Forum: Almea
- Topic: So Pav Onemu Loglaunië soei Sfahei
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1926
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:51 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 556
- Views: 661976
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
Eat on here is probably by analogy with live on , e.g. "He lives on the money he makes developing software." I would've assumed it would be by analogy to feed on and graze on . I read eat on differently from feed on or graze on here, e.g. you can say "The rabbits like to feed on (or ...
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 556
- Views: 661976
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 6:24 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063921
- Wed Nov 08, 2023 4:54 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452294
Re: Random Thread
Trying hard not to be snarky, but are you absolutely sure all this can't be done without also killing at least 20 million people, invading its neighbors, destroying the environment, being unable to feed the country, and fostering wars and dictatorships across the planet? Is Finland a cesspool of ho...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 8:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452294
Re: Random Thread
So what? Is the Ephemera board not good enough for you? Personally, I much prefer the slower pace of conversation since it means I don't get to obsess over a conversation. You can set your desktop background as your profile picture here, what do you mean? If you don't like the way the board looked,...
- Mon Nov 06, 2023 3:54 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Random Thread
- Replies: 3731
- Views: 452294
- Mon Oct 16, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
- Replies: 4692
- Views: 2063921
Re: Linguistic Miscellany Thread
There's no point speculating until we know more about the text.
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: Innovative Usage Thread
- Replies: 556
- Views: 661976
Re: Innovative Usage Thread
/-ɒntʃ/ [-ɔntʃ] for me.
- Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:18 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1931
- Views: 15028773
Re: Venting thread
I wish it was possible to mute threads so I don't ever have to know that people are posting there