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Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by sneak » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 6:31 PM UTC

dhosek wrote: post #391

sneak wrote: post #320

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Don't you mean paper which isn't 215.9 by 279.4 mm? Go on, switch your thermostat in the US to degrees C. Join us.

I’m likely moving to Mexico next year, so I’ve switched the temperature reading on my watch to Celsius in preparation. The problem is that bands of ten degrees in Fahrenheit translate nicely to comfort levels,¹ which is not really true for Celsius, or at least I’m still adapting to get a sense of what those numbers mean in practice. ⸻ 1. For the record: below 0: Stay inside, drink warm cocoa 0–10: Only go out if you…

It's pretty much universally agreed that: a) Fahrenheit is more ergonomic for human perception of temperatures, and b) the 7+ billion who use degrees C every single day don't find this to be a problem.

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by pluies » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 10:02 AM UTC

liotier wrote: post #74

This French person has taken to writing in en-GB, as a token of protest against current USAian politics. I thank the USA for this step in French-British rapprochement ! Also, in the late 90's, The Register made me love British English... Local accents are great branding.

You'll want to brush up on punctuation rules, the space before an exclamation mark is a dead giveaway of a French writer :) (Source: fellow en-GB-using-frenchperson)

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by Vinnl » Tue, Jul 07, 2026, 12:09 PM UTC

rvnx wrote: post #280

Vinnl wrote: post #228

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I think it's a bit quick to want that variant to be actual already, but eventual we might be able to make it work.

It's a weird broken import of French (could be because the EU Parliament) is in Brussels so highly French-speaking. It's also still very incoherent, it mixes up billion and trillion, and it mixes up milliard (the French equivalent) with billion. You absolutely do not want ambiguity there when you work professionally as a politician. deadline supposed to come from delay but it is incorrect use in French. cabinet is to…

I don't think it's just French. The million-billion distinction is different from English in many European languages - [1] lists basically every language other than English in the EU. And in my example, "actual" to mean "current" and "eventual" to mean "possibly" are at least also present in Dutch and sometimes used in that way in the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...

Re: This blog is written in en-GB

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Post by MrVandemar » Fri, Jul 17, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC

nozzlegear wrote: post #469

unfamiliar wrote: post #468

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> How do I get it back?! > Inexcusable that Paramount used the UK dub on some episodes > Just downloaded it and had the same panic in my house Sure I was being hyperbolic for effect but a lot of the tone is closer to panicking than “wondering”. We are exposed to American accents all day every day. Americans often seem to want to protect themselves from having to be exposed to anything non-American, even going as far…

It's outlandish to suggest that the country known as "the great melting pot" wants to be protected from anything as trivial as a non-American accent. I don't think you realize how many non-American accents we hear in our day-to-day lives just living in this country – it's part of the American experience. Those parents that you've honed in on were concerned that the characters their children are used to suddenly sound…

The Office. The IT Crowd. Red Dwarf. Coupling. Life on Mars.

They even wanted to remake "Fawlty Towers" without "the tall idiot".