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Any science-related piece of text should use international standard units, period. I really find it absurdly arrogant from american writers to use their broken
by bsaul 3y ago
Any science-related piece of text should use international standard units, period.
I really find it absurdly arrogant from american writers to use their broken system for scientific material, knowing the rest of the whole god damn world is already forced to use english for scientific communication.
As a non-native person reading and writing english all day long, this makes me infuriated every single time. I feel like being shown a middle finger.
- NeoTar 3y agoAutomated website translation software will sometimes try to translate dates into ‘English’ so 04.01.2023 becomes 01/04/2023. I can see a time where it‘ll start trying to do the same for other units and the large numbers of metric using English-speakers will have to put up with 1600 km being translated to 1000 miles.
- shmerl 3y agoAnd most indeed do. It's annoying when it doesn't happen. Metrication in US takes ages for no good reason.
- dataflow 3y agoSee also: https://br.ifunny.co/picture/R68WTJxJA https://br.ifunny.co/picture/R68WTJxJA