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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago (4 children)

In the US we use either 1st floor and Ground floor to refer to the same floor. The second and higher floors are consistently named though, except for those buildings that skip the 13th floor.

[โ€“] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

except for those buildings that skip the 13th floor.

When I was in Malaysia, buildings marked floors in British English and skipped any number ending in four (bad luck for Chinese). #MildlyInfuriating

[โ€“] fireweed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Singapore is even more bonkers because they have eastern and western superstitions to accommodate, plus it's a really densely-built island so tall buildings are extremely common.

[โ€“] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not always, nothing like the US and inconsistency, I work in the northeast US on a college campus our buildings have G-1-2-3....even the newer buildings follow it.

[โ€“] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Really? Which campus? Any pics?

[โ€“] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

A university in Babish's hometown. I'd rather not doxx myself more than that.

[โ€“] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When your country is made of tiny countries (states) with comparable sizes and populations to European countries there are always going to be exceptions.

[โ€“] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Now imagine the exceptions in Europe with actual countries

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It genuinely seems asinine to me to call the floor above the ground floor the first floor.

[โ€“] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be if you did it in the US, where everybody knows the ground floor is the first floor. Here in Europe, it's just taught that way from birth, so everybody knows that the first floor is above ground and there's no confusion.

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I understand not getting confused. That doesn't mean calling the second floor that you put your feet on "the first floor" makes sense.

[โ€“] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It makes perfect sense if you learn it that way! It's hardly asinine in any case. I don't think it's ever caused a problem, except for Americans in Europe getting confused by it or vice versa.

[โ€“] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

It makes total sense of you don't consider the first level a real floor because it's just, like, ground (duh). /hj