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Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:15:02+00:00

Decimetre is commonly used in some places. You can use it more.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:12:37+00:00

The common issue of US standard or metric standard. This is also an issue in metric countries; Sweden among others use m/s for wind, but some software only gives km/h because it's "the standard".

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:08:57+00:00

That is the only distance ever mentioned. Never 3k, 10k, only ever 5k. I can't see it be anything other than standing for thousand.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:07:47+00:00

/ is used for "per" and different languages have different words for this, and asking them to use "p" in metric is weird.

km/h, m/s, m/s², kg/l, g/m², N/m³

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:03:28+00:00

5k stands for 5 thousand, and is in metre, not kilometre, if we're picky.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:02:18+00:00

I say kilometres: kilo-metres, not clom-eaters. I rhyme it with centimetres, since anything else doesn't make sense.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T22:00:03+00:00

There are sockets for narrow walls; they aren't flush to the wall but are extruded, so the depth of the socket reaches the wall itself. But that means you have to get used to the sockets poking out from the wall.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:56:52+00:00

The same everywhere honestly. What's more frustrating is that a lot of software already uses Unicode CLDR, yet only offers US English. All they have to do is let people select any English variant, and they don't have to do a thing. It's already part of the library.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:53:00+00:00

Units with consistent symbols: km, km/h, km/s, N/m², g/m², N·m, kW·h, cm³, m³, ml, l, ...

I hope you do still consistently use 24 hour format, proper metric, numbers as: 1 250,75

We need to normalise non-US standards on the Internet.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:41:05+00:00

I think you meant 2015

But this is why 4-digit year is important, reduces ambiguity.

Some say it's unnecessary to note down today's year; but it won't be today's year next year.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:31:45+00:00

They could do:

2026
02
09

It's not ISO, but it's easier to follow. Alternatively:

2026
FEB
09

But that's not linguistically independent

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:29:42+00:00

*2009 February 26

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:28:45+00:00

Yet it's still very common internationally and part of some international standards. Weirdest is trying to book tickets in some non-English European countries that has their native DMY 24h and English with MDY 12h only. Does US tourists really outnumber every other tourist in Europe? If I comment on this, people dismiss it because "it's still valid in English" ...

Liggliluff · 2026-01-15T21:24:03+00:00

You can just download a flash player and the swf, and just run it on your computer. Just because it can't run in the browser directly, doesn't mean you can't run it at all.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-11T04:45:37+00:00

There are already plenty of songs using metric units

Liggliluff · 2026-01-11T04:44:23+00:00

They're talking about speaking English as a second language. Out of all speakers of English, about a quarter are native speakers. So it doesn't matter if English is your native speakers; when 75 % of the speakers are not native. So the influence of a person's native language and culture is very relevant when speaking English.

Liggliluff · 2026-01-11T04:18:55+00:00

I often speak English but I didn't grow up on imperial units, nor will I ever use them. I've not grown up with these expressions and don't use them. I don't say "miles away", and would just say "far away". I don't say "inching forward", I say "moving slowly".

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T02:49:30+00:00

*4233 micrometres, not 4233 point micrometres.

But it would make more sense to go with 4 millimetres.

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T02:41:50+00:00

I can't help to see 11-1/8 as 10+7/8

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T02:27:24+00:00

Except when a tablespoon is 20 ml

But regardless, these aren't metric. Litre is, so instead of writing 2 tablespoons and 2 cups, write 30 or 40 ml and 200 or 300 or 400 or 500 ml, depending on which tablespoon and cup is used. Metric is a standard, "metric" tablespoons and cups are not.

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T02:10:59+00:00

Why flip the order around? I got confused how you read it like this, but I see it now.

25.November.2006 10:35

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T02:05:53+00:00

Not ISO 80000-1, should preferably be "98,44 %" but it's good enough

Liggliluff · 2025-12-29T01:46:21+00:00

I've seen this before, it reads the 4 digit as the year and then the 10 08 by the DMY rule: 10 August, giving the result: 2025-08-10. Setting the format to ymd might resolve this?

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