230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system

Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by wirrbel on Sunday January 22, 2023 @07:33AM (#34476747)

Romans thought in base 10 (X,C,M) a bit strange to refer to them.

But I would happily adopt a base 12 number system with base 12 units. Let’s say we use X for 10 and Ǝ for 11, 134 would be 1Ǝ, 24 hour clock a 20 (base 12) hour clock

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Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by euroderf on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:29AM (#34477685)

As a new father, I have toyed with the idea of raising my child with base 16.

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Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by wirrbel on Sunday January 22, 2023 @10:48AM (#34478483)

throughout my life I planned on teaching my kid(s) this one created word for the state of being not-thirsty. So in German, there is 'satt' which means 'not hungry', but for thirst, there is no corresponding word and its one of these urban memes that the corresponding word for not-thirsty would be 'sitt'.

Now that I have a kid, my kid has not learned the word 'sitt'. :-)

Anyway, I wouldn't have made the news as this dad did: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229808/Linguist-re...

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Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by randomcarbloke on Sunday January 22, 2023 @11:04AM (#34478671)

What's wrong with quenched or sated?

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Re:230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metr... by wirrbel on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:29AM (#34486119)

Does not exist as such in German.

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