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The weirdest number translation I saw was on a package of spaghetti. The cooking time was 8-10 minutes in English, and 10-12 minutes in Spanish. Note that the
by technothrasher 3y ago
The weirdest number translation I saw was on a package of spaghetti. The cooking time was 8-10 minutes in English, and 10-12 minutes in Spanish. Note that they were both in Arabic numerals, not spelled out. Why do I have to cook my spaghetti longer if I speak Spanish??
- eunos 3y agoSpanish speaker has different al dente preference?
- JAlexoid 3y agoTo this day, living in US for 8 years, I have to stop and think if I need to translate minutes and seconds to American.
- a1369209993 3y agoThere's a handy rule of thumb for this: is the number of seconds per minute (60 aka 2*2*3*5) a weird, random-sounding number that's way too easy to make clean subdivisions out of[0], rather than a nice, math-hostile power of ten? Then it's probably already in American units, unless it's British. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
- juped 3y agoRobespierre wanted to saddle us with metric time too, you know.
- ted_bunny 3y agoThe 60 is from Sumer.
- a1369209993 3y agoIt's in the context of: > I have to stop and think if I need to translate [] to American. and I assume (reasonably though not certainly) that the commentor is not Sumerian.
- kzrdude 3y agoI've got a pack of rice that says put in X amount of water and cook until dry in danish, in swedish it says put in 2*X amount of water, cook Y minutes and strain the rice. Double confusion, why different instructions and who strains water from the rice
- smnrchrds 3y agoIt's an official recommendation in Sweden due to arsenic content of rice. https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/en/food-and-content/oonskade-amnen/metaller/arsenik-i-ris https://www.livsmedelsverket.se/en/food-and-content/oonskade...
- kzrdude 3y agoThanks for the revelation of the mystery
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- usr1106 3y agoFor food to be kept in the refrigerator Danish, Swedish, and Finnish instructions differ by 1 degree centigrade each. Don't remember the values from the top of my head, something like 8, 7, 6 respectively.
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- jmorenoamor 3y agoAtmospheric pressure? Water hardness? Go figure.
- jahewson 3y agoThe English speakers will overcook it anyway.
- actionfromafar 3y agoAfter careful double blind studies, it was determined that if you directed impatient spaniards to cook for 10-12 minutes, they cooked it for 8-10 minutes? This translation really is weird! :-D
- cozzyd 3y agoMany cities in Mexico are at relatively high altitudw (but probably not high enough to make a difference...).
- bombolo 3y agoBecause spanish people like their pasta mushy and overcooked (true story)
- cyclotron3k 3y agoProbably a cut and paste job from another style of pasta they offer, and the intern was asked to just change the pasta name and cooking times...