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> Quit being dishonest. You're not trying to understand because it's really fucking easy to understand. Again, being very disingenuous. I'm sorry that it's so
by usui 5y ago
> Quit being dishonest. You're not trying to understand because it's really fucking easy to understand.
Again, being very disingenuous. I'm sorry that it's so offensive to you that I was reading the article in Japanese and found it very strange that imperial units were leaking across not only domain topics (semiconductors), but language itself. If you ask me, it's more obtrusive this way than the other way around. I thought it wouldn't be too much of an ask to use the original units that the entire industry uses
This touts a certain kind of agenda that Americans should be pandered to, and I think your aggressive tone reflects that.
I hope you're aware that a very well-supported Japanese edition of The Wall Street Journal exists, and its target audience is Japanese readers. It usually handles localization extremely well. I was reading the non-English article and saw it was using imperial units both in the text and graphs and I had to do a double take. This is the entire reason why I found it interesting.
https://jp.wsj.com/articles/the-chip-shortage-has-made-a-star-of-this-little-known-component-11630992492 https://jp.wsj.com/articles/the-chip-shortage-has-made-a-sta...
As previously mentioned, the scale is massively big. Does the WSJ think its viewers will perceive 17,187,062 square meters as small?
- cptskippy 5y ago> I'm sorry that it's so offensive to you Let's clarify. You're sorry that I find your insults offensive? > Lol every time I see the word "feet" I'm reminded that this article isn't targeted to anyone but Americans > I absolutely have never had to use those units in a serious professional context. > Any time I see a technically-sounding article use units like "feet" and "football fields" I subconsciously find it very difficult to take anything afterward seriously. You basically said "the American units of measure are unprofessional and I can't take anyone seriously when they use them" and you wonder why that might be offensive? You're reading an American newspaper about things topical to Americans. Are you reading it for laughs then? I don't understand. It's ok to not like the Imperial system, most Americans hate it too. And we're stuck with it until momentum can built to change that fact. But what you're exhibiting is elitism and snobbery.
- usui 5y ago> Let's clarify. You're sorry that I find your insults offensive? > You basically said "the American units of measure are unprofessional and I can't take anyone seriously when they use them" and you wonder why that might be offensive? > Are you reading it for laughs then? I don't understand. I tried to make it clear that I was describing my own experiences and biases, and I admitted that the units (when taken alone, by themselves) are arbitrary, and so it's irrational to harbor this subconscious, yet you still seem fully set on being offended rather than taking my descriptions at face value. I think in the future your conversations could go better if you put less effort into deconstructing people's ulterior motives. > It's ok to not like the Imperial system, most Americans hate it too. And we're stuck with it until momentum can built to change that fact. But what you're exhibiting is elitism and snobbery. Sure, sounds good.
- cptskippy 5y agoAcknowledging your bigotry doesn't make it ok.
- dang 5y agoYou did more than anyone to perpetuate this flamewar. That's seriously not cool, regardless of how badly someone else's comments were or you feel they were. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- VortexDream 5y agoI don't understand why you're being so antagonistic. Cut it out.
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- finiteseries 5y agoThanks for taking the time to call out obvious casual prejudice, that you did it so articulately and humanly for someone retreating further and further into the facile impression of a robot speaks volumes.