"Half a pound of salami, please."
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I can do much of it in my head going back and forth....weight, distance, milliliters. But when it comes to smaller measurements, I don't have that conversion logic upstairs yet because I haven't really had to use it. It's not that hard and it makes more sense to use base 10.
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Fine, just so long as we base the length of a centimeter as the size of Rudolf VanWerdenstein’s knuckle on his middle finger. And a gram should be the measured weight of a single lock of a Hapsburg princess’s hair.
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And a liter should be set at the exact amount of Bohemian Pilsner with an ABV of 5.2% it takes for me to drink in an hour to reach a blood alcohol level of .06.
I’m willing to sit through multiple tests…
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
@LuFins-Dad said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Although I still think when I order a pint of beer, I should be ordering half a liter, because you get more beer that way.
Go to England, you get more!
More bad beer…
I shouldn't worry - they'd probably be willing to serve it to you in a lady's glass.
In fact, they might insist.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
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@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Mik said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Ah yes, there is that little discrepancy.
I always say KILometer. Just to be obnoxious - and right.
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
What about other countries?
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
What about other countries?
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to videoI was only joking
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to video@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist
It's not. British English is primarily non-rhotic. The New England accent, while more rhotic than British English, is still one of the least rhotic accents in America.
So relative to you it's rhotic, sure. Universally speaking, it ain't.
Please love yourself.
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Interestingly, in medicine, everything is metric - other than weight. Patient weight, that is.
That may have changed in the last few years, however. I'm out of that loop.
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Interestingly, in medicine, everything is metric - other than weight. Patient weight, that is.
That may have changed in the last few years, however. I'm out of that loop.
When they weigh me at Duke or Columbia it’s in kilograms. They have a conversion chart on the wall for patient convenience.
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@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to video@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to videoYea but the way the spell it, it should be ki-LAH-me-trey
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Don't most Americans pronounce it kil-ah-meeder?
Yes. How do the Brits pronounce it?
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
Link to videoYea but the way the spell it, it should be ki-LAH-me-trey
@bachophile said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
should be ki-LAH-me-trey
They probably run IVs at 125 MIL-i-lee-trays per hour too.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@George-K said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
Either way, but we do enunciate the 't' correctly.
But you don't pronounce the "r".
KIL oh metah.
I think the 'r' is in there - then again, I've lived in New England for 20 years, so I might here r's where none exist
It's not. British English is primarily non-rhotic. The New England accent, while more rhotic than British English, is still one of the least rhotic accents in America.
So relative to you it's rhotic, sure. Universally speaking, it ain't.
@Aqua-Letifer said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
British English is primarily non-rhotic.
A Scotsman would not agree. Neither would people from the South West of England - Cornwall, Somerset etc or for that matter Liverpool.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
British English is primarily non-rhotic.
A Scotsman would not agree. Neither would people from the South West of England - Cornwall, Somerset etc or for that matter Liverpool.
@Doctor-Phibes said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
@Aqua-Letifer said in "Half a pound of salami, please.":
British English is primarily non-rhotic.
A Scotsman would not agree. Neither would people from the South West of England - Cornwall, Somerset etc or for that matter Liverpool.
Primarily. So, they'd be wrong.
