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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world

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[–] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But you can have multiple levels of basement.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And it's numbered different building to building, sometimes level 1 is nearest to surface, sometimes it's the deepest one.

And if you think that's confusing, I've ridden this one elevator once, it had four buttons arranged in a square: "P", "FSZT", "MFSZT", "1E". Guess what order the floors are in.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuggit, I needed the exercise from taking the stairs anyways.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This was a building in Budapest, "P" stands for "pince", as in basement, "FSZT" is "földszint", literally "ground floor", "MFSZT" is "magasföldszint", "high ground floor" meaning mezzanine level, and "1E" is "1. emelet", "first elevation", so that was highest.

The quality of the elevator still made me think of taking the stairs though.

Fun fact, Hungarian is the only language I've heard of that uses Latin letters and also has multi-glyph letters as long as four glyphs, so "sz" is considered one letter like in Polish I think, but "ddzs" is also one letter.