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• General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Yeah, the problem isn’t getting Americans to use metric. It’s getting them to stop using everything else.

  For some reason, English derived cultures have this incredibly conservative streak. Like the language lugs around letters that no one has pronounced in centuries. Maybe it comes from stare decisis. You start doing this differently, and it’s all Mad Max from there.

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• bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And also soda but only above handheld size containers

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  • dharmacurious@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s the one that gets me the most, man. People will literally go and say “the sixteen-point-nine-ounce bottle” instead of just saying “500 mil bottle” and it blows my mind. It’s so much less awkward to say. I’ve even heard people ask for the 33-point-eight ounce bottle at the gas station I work at. It’s a fucking liter. Just say the 1 liter bottle!

    I know it’s a completely lost cause at this point, but I genuinely wish we’d switch:(

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve never heard that one.

      1 liter, 2 liter. Always. But anything smaller in imperial. Very odd tbh

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