• culprit@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 minutes ago

    So do French stoners just tell each other “80 dude” or “90 everybody” if its a big party?

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Captain Picard is French so he ought to be in a better position to answer the question than most of us.

    • Small_Quasar@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 hours ago

      Captain Picard and his brother were sent off to an old fashioned English boarding school by their luddite father that didn’t allow them to transport home in the evening or weekends, thus their English accents (my head canon).

      Picard’s brother became indoctrinated into the same fucked up luddite philosophy and didn’t even allow 24th century fire safety technology in his home, leading to the death of him, his wife and his son due to a fire (actual canon).

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    Brother, thats nothing, have you seen their vowels? Vowel chart is insane:

    And also they distinguish diphtongs(like ai in pain), hiatus (like saying pain but saying it like “pa” from “papa” and then “in”) and even fucking glides so “ai” and “aj” are not the same 💀

    Edit: Fixed the image with LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 's help

    • Dookieman12@piefed.socialEnglish
      181·
      12 hours ago

      We adopted the standard. The boat with the official measurements sank on the way over, you unread swine.

      • recursivethinking@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 hour ago

        That F is zeroed out on fucking Brine makes it the most absurd thing.

        Like OK there may be an argument for base 12 or base 16 (but not both)… But a mixture of water, ice, and sodium chloride?

        Like OK blame a German I guess , but at least they were smart enough to decide, “Das ist stupid”

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          32 minutes ago

          C is pretty made up too. Why water, and why sea level? Don’t complain about F if you aren’t using K, where zero actually means zero. Anything else is just picking arbitrary points that you like for one reason or another.

      • Dookieman12@piefed.socialEnglish
        151·
        12 hours ago

        Oligarchs hijack the government to oppose the will of people, obviously that means every single US American wholeheartedly supports their oppressors. You must read so many books to be that smart.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      812·
      12 hours ago

      God forbid the units used by the average person in everyday life are easily divisible by whole numbers, not resulting in things like infinitely repeating decimals.

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
        72·
        11 hours ago

        God forbid units used by the average person in everyday life are easily converted between, not resulting in things like ‘how many feet are in a mile’.

          • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
            41·
            10 hours ago

            The main conversions would be betwren meters and centimeters ot in your case feet and inches. Those happen way more often.

            And as soon as you get slightly out of most everyday lives but still quite everyday into the realm of unit conversion betwren different things like volume, speed, power what have you imperial just falls apart.

      • bjorney@lemmy.ca
        104·
        12 hours ago

        Yeah I hate when I have to convert temperatures between systems, and then the nice round numbers that represent common values used in everyday life like 0, 20, 30, 40, and 100 become absolutely nonsensical values like 32, 68, 86, 104 and 212

        Metric measurements are only decimals in North America because things are fabricated to be round imperial numbers for the American market. When you buy a piece of lumber in Europe it’s cut to 45x95mm which (shockingly) converts to the absolutely nonsensical 1.77165x3.74016 inch two by four

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          When you buy a piece of lumber in Europe it’s cut to 45x95mm which (shockingly) converts to the absolutely nonsensical 1.77165x3.74016 inch two by four

          Ah yes, nice round numbers there as well with metric. Why isn’t it just 50x100mm? And that conversion is not even the imperial measurement of a 2x4, and you clearly don’t understand where the dimensions come from.

          There are nominal dimensions, and actual dimensions for lumber. The name 2x4 is the nominal dimension, the rough size before drying and planing. Between the forest and the hardware store, a board loses material twice.

          1. A log goes through a sawmill and gets cut into rough boards. At this point, a 2x4 really is about 2" x 4". Green (freshly cut) wood contains 30% or more moisture.

          2. The boards go into a kiln where hot air drops the moisture content to about 19%, as water leaves the cells, the board shrinks. The dried boards are rough and uneven. A planer shaves all four sides smooth. S4S (Surfaced Four Sides) means all four faces are planed. The planer removes another 1/8" or so from each face.

          Result: a board that started at 2" x 4" ends up at a standard measurement of 1-1/2" x 3-1/2".

          Now to get back to the metric equivalent… that 45x95mm board… starts with a nominal dimension of 47x100mm. Neither the nominal or actual dimensions are nice round numbers here, although at least the actual dimensions at the end are a multiple of 5. Why some places also refer to these as a 2x4, well they’re the equivalent even though the actual size is completely unrelated.
          UK example

  • Takapapatapaka@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais
    25·
    13 hours ago

    🤓 Technically there are septante, octante, nonante, but it’s either considered local to some region (belgium, switzerland, etc) or old-school