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

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 months ago (53 children)

I'm American and I often think we do things wrong...

but not this. First floor on the SECOND floor. It's just wrong.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

We think of it as the first floor that is above the level of the ground - the planet supplies ground level, we just count every level we put above it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So I'm on the top floor of a 2 story house (floor 1 in British). You're on the ground floor. Would you say that I'm "up on the first floor" if someone asked where I was? That seems very weird to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

We do not use those descriptors in houses, like ever.

You would be downstairs on the ground, upstairs above that.

You might get specific and say "he's in the loft room".

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