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I'm American and I often think we do things wrong...
but not this. First floor on the SECOND floor. It's just wrong.
This makes as much sense as those people that defend Fahrenheit by saying "30 degrees can't be warm, its cold!" - your own reference is to what you're used to calling it.
But... In what way is that floor first?
Its the first floor
Because the other one is the ground
Right. So your running a race and you're in first place, right behind the leader.
No because the leader is by definition the person in first place.
The floor is not by definition the ground.
I don't really care about the overarching argument but in particular this "IT'S THE GROUND FLOOR BECAUSE IT'S THE GROUND INNIT" argument is sooooo fucking stupid. No, it actually isn't the ground. It's roughly ground level, sure, but it's floor. That was built. It isn't the ground.
Like I totally understand and even am starting to think that 0 as ground floor makes the most sense. But this particular argument just makes you look like a moron.
Yeah I know. That's why it's called the ground floor. Where ground is an adjective. Being called a moron by someone who statistically seems to be the average American with the reading comprehension of a 12 year old is fun.
"Because the other one is the ground"
Yeah, man, my reading comprehension is bad. You used the word ground as an adjective and didn't literally say that it was THE ground. Sure man. Nice random article, it really proved your point.