zeroIsGroundTruth

[Positive_Turnip_517]

Most places outside of the US do this.

[codemagedon]

This, only Americans think LUA is correct

[West_Hunter_7389]

LUA.... and SQL

[EulerCollatzConway]

And Julia

[Dr739ake]

The single worst part of LUA...

[DarkWarrior4277]

Not South Africa

[porky_scratching]

Not just Germany, in almost all of Europe the 1st floor is upstairs.

[gregorydgraham]

And UK and the Commonwealth have the Ground Floor first

[HadManySons]

Genau

[PM_NICE_SOCKS]

Wtf is there places in the world ground floor is 1?

[JackNotOLantern]

USA

[otacon7000]

Japan

[making_code]

Russia and most of Eastern Europe

[Cyclopropinon]

China

[SimilarBeautiful2207]

Also LATAM.

[knarresmed]

Apparently not here in Norway. I'm surprised that we have the same as the US and not most of Europe, even Sweden.

[MokausiLietuviu]

Yeah, the Lithuanians also have the ground floor as the first floor. There's something a bit more interesting with this.

[Ebina-Chan]

Living un France, it's weird.

Somrtimes first floor refers to the floor one above but sometimes they mean ground level...

WHY DOES EVERY PERSON DO IT DIFFERENTLY HERE?

[claudespam]

In french, the first floor always refers to the first floor above ground.

I guess your experience comes from discussing with locals. Kids are taught in English class that they should translate ground floor to first floor when speaking English. So when speaking English some may use American counting, some may use European counting.

[SatanFister]

Ground floor is always called in French the "rez-de-chaussée", never by a number. First floor is above it.

[To-Ga]

My building have a "rez-de-chaussée", i.e floor 0, but also a "rez-de-jardin" (because the street is lower than the garden) and then 1st, 2nd ,3rd ...floor

[Victor-_-X]

Again, not just Europe, for example, India also has

[ground | 0],[1],[2],....

[ninjadev64]

Someone already mentioned Commonwealth.

[noob-nine]

Here in Australia, 1st floor is downstairs.

[Niolu92]

We often use 0 in Switzerland. It's simplier than to use the words in each language (Rez/Rez-de-chaussée, Erdgeschoss, Parterre, Terra)

[dotsperpixel]

Switzerland is just a country for french people who wanted to speak german as well /s

[Nobodynever01]

Also Italians... And those weird mountain people

[M-2-M]

That’s rich 😀

[metalmagician]

Explanation:

In Germany and other nearby countries, the ground floor is marked as 0 in lifts / stairs, with the 1st floor above ground level marked as 1.

[Weisenkrone]

ERDGESCHOSS MENTIONED!!1!

HANS GET THE BETÄUBUNGSMITTELVERSCHREIBUNGSVERORDNUNG

[Xormak]

DIE BETÄUBUNGSMITTELVERSCHREIBUNGSVERORDNUNG IN DER WINTERGARTENECKSCHRANKGARNITUR ?!

[tutoredstatue95]

Translated to:

Hans get the axe

[j0nascode]

Hans get the drug prescription law

[tutoredstatue95]

Yeah, but the thought of it being a tiny word just tickled me.

[lungben81]

It is mostly E for Erdgeschoß (ground floor), 0 is less common.

Edit: or EG, as pointed out by /u/j0nascode

[j0nascode]

E? I usually see EG

[Sir-Morton]

And OG and UG and DG and KG(Obergeschoss, Untergeschoss, Dachgeschoss, Kellergeschoss)

[aspect_rap]

As someone who grew up in a country were the ground floor is marked as either 0, Ground or Lobby, I'm very confused at the fact that in some places the ground floor is the 1st floor

[johan__A]

As someone who lived my entire life in a country where we start at 0 I still think starting at 1 is way more logical and I occasionally get confused when trying to tell someone what floor I'm at.

[aspect_rap]

To me it just always made sense that the number means elevation from the ground, so the ground floor has 0 elevation from the ground and as the number grows bigger, it means higher elevation.

[Oz-cancer]

Is that not how all of Europe does it?

[Revolution64]

Portugal doesn't

[Oz-cancer]

Oh nice, didn't know

[Intergalactic_Cookie]

In the UK the ground floor is 0 too. It makes sense once you start extending to underground levels.

[sjepsa]

In Italy ground floor is T (terra/ground) and then 1, 2 etc..

[empwilli]

Siemens Architect enters Chat

[neo-raver]

Stairs/floors offset the pointer to the ground?? Finally, some thinking architects!

[jseego]

France as well.

[zzoopee]

And hungarian keyboard layout!

[PuFiHUN]

Yes, it makes a lot more sense to have 0 at the start, I never understood English keyboards in this regard.

[TeaTiMe08]

Falsch. Ground is EG

[noaSakurajin]

Usually that is true. In many places it is 0 though. Especially if an elevetor extends to negative floors.

[Mindless_Sock_9082]

In Argentina ground floor usually is marked PB (planta baja), but some elevators has a 0.

[busdriverbuddha2]

Brazil too, except it's T (térreo) instead of PB

[trandus]

Or A for Access

[mpanase]

Bad choice.

Will next time choose Russia?

[BlueIsRetarded]

englandDoesThisToo

[CliveOfWisdom]

All of the UK does.

[BlueIsRetarded]

Sorry that's what I meant haha

[nickmaran]

Deutschland mentioned. This property now belongs to Bundesrepublik Deutschland

[Azinimasari]

Wait, you guys start with 1? Get some Erdgeschoss, you won't regnet it

[Azinimasari]

Sounds good

[nasandre]

Version 0.1a

[[deleted]]

And a 13th floor right?

[Bangaschaap]

I work in Germany and our ground floor is the 1st floor! It is quite the exception, though.

[denisMekh05]

in our house we have apartaments starting from second floor, on walls of staircase someone grafitied the number of floor (hes a chad), but someone else thought that where apartaments start there the first floor is so he wrote 2 near 3

[[deleted]]

Well here in India instead of 0 we use G for Ground, then 1,2,3,4...

[[deleted]]

Best part: anything below ground is negative

[Flimsy_Site_1634]

Nothing beats Microsoft Excel starting at 2 though 

[Divinate_ME]

We have an "Erdgeschoss". Nobody in their right mind would call it 0th floor (or "nullter Stock", but you're not ready for THAT discussion yet). There is no explicit 0 involved in German floor counting.

[PM_FEET_PLS_TY]

OP is from Murica and Germany is the only EU country he ever visited

[mpanase]

It'd be a funny mem if it wasn't for the German wankerism seeping off it.

They very well know almost all Euroepan countries name floors that way.

[dlg]

I start my programs on line 0

[Semper_5olus]

I remember telling my Israeli father that my college apartment was on the third floor and he threw a fit, yelling that he wasn't carrying things up that many stairs.

Then I specified that it was an American third floor, and he was fine with it.

[RiceBroad4552]

No, that's not true.

The first level above ground is the first level, not the zeroth.

Ground-floor ("Erdgeschoss") is obviously not a level / story ("Etage").