>Brits will defend this
They re right tho
Inb4 300 reply thread
For once I agree with the pirates
>>59950744
>The concept of the number "0" doesn't exist in clap culture
>>59950826
0 is the ground itself, not an entire floor.
Brits got it right in a logical sense but that still suck because the word floor is inappropriate, if you had a distinct word that separate the floor (ground) from the elevator/stairs ones that would work perfectly.
Americans got it right in pure literal sense.
TL;DR english language sucks ass.
>>59950855
Yes, the floor on the ground, you are learnding Ralph.
Rightisright
>>59950907
So your bottom floor has no vertical height whatsoever? Do you also say that a race winner came in 0th place?
>>59950958
Do you call the second in command number one?
>>59950975
Literally what?
>>59950975
No but you probably call the leader the 0th in command
>>59950826
except that
"zero floors" would mean you don't have a building, it's just a patch of dirt.
>>59950744
what do americans do about underground levels?
when you get in the lift to leave do you have to remember ground level is actually the 4th floor due to 4 underground levels?
Why dont americans ever design these things logically?
>>59951016
Now is not the time to argue with you, that comes later.
>>59951022
No, we have B1, B2, B3, etc.
>>59951019
That's why it is the ground floor, you're just spewing out crap to try and justify your bastardisation of my language.
>>59951022
They're listed as B1, B2, B3, etc
>>59951022
You do realise that most modern Aussie buildings follow the American layout....
>>59951022
Sample building
3F
2F
1F/Ground Floor
B1F
B2F
>>59950826
>>59950763
>0
>the lack of
>nonexistent
>the zeroeth floor, or the floor that doesn't exist
?
I have four cats in a room.
The first cat, the second, the third, and the fourth.
Apparently, in bongland and cheesetopolis, I have the zeroth, first, second, and third cats.
>>59950744
We use the Brit system.
>>59951053
>bastardisation of my language.
>implying English hasn't always been a bastardized language
>>59950744
America is on fire with the '...will defend this' posts.
>>59951084
Except that's wrong and I suspect you are just shitposting.
Not even Americans are this stupid.
>>59950744
I conccur with the yanks
no we don't fuckface
>>59950744
Ground floor, originally made of the ground, packed earth. First floor, the first created floor of the building, made of wood sitting above the ground floor.
>>59951107
Yes, therefore you should call your bastardisation something else.
>>59950744
You either have a ground floor or a 1st floor, not both.
>>59951122
I'd say the same to you.
How is the ground floor "floor zero"?
Only the WTC has a ground (floor) zero.
It's the first floor on a building.
How is the ceiling of the lowest room the first floor?
American english is literally the best thing to have happened to the language since the loss of declensions and cases. They made it more logical and better sounding.
We use the brit layout but we got a different word for ground floor and other floors
>>59950905
Says the person who counts to sixty ten
The ground floor is usually different (reception area, mail, services, etc) from the upstairs floors that are usually all the same, ergo first out of many identical, same reason it's called a penthouse, not nth floor.
>>59950905
English is your bastard child ya Frenchie, it's high time you took responsibility and acknowledged that. Too bad your husband Angelo-Saxon is dead. You guys got along great besides all that whole 100 years war drama or whatever. Stupid couples squabble that was.
>>59951283
No. English is more Germanic than anything.
>>59951187
Explained it perfectly
>>59951145
Anything you say after his post is just shitposting.
>>59951283
>people that anthropomorphize countries and history.
Kill yourself faggot.
>>59951142
> (You)
>>59951303
Wait, so you're saying that equating 0 and the ground floor makes no sense?
>>59950826
But when a baby is born, they are in their 1st year of life, not 0th.
>>59951303
>I say it's over, so it's over.
It's not over till the fat woman sings, and all American posters ITT are men.
Considering that the "Floor" of a building doesn't have to be constructed materials and can be packed ground, it should be "ground floor", "second floor", "third", et. c. by his logic.
>American buildings don't have a 13th floor
fucking lmao
>>59951363
I'm a girl.
>>59950744
Who gives a fuck?
Although..
Question mark or question point?
Exclamation mark or exclamation point?
Sucked in now like a faggot.
>>59951363
> all American posters ITT are men.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>59951363
G, 2, 3, 4, etc is a common numbering scheme. So is 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.
>>59951375
Mostly older buildings.
>>59951407
Question mark and exclamation point. Also, it's period (not full stop).
>>59951241
Says the person that use a month/day/year system
>>59951407
>Question mark or question point?
Question mark. Never "question point"
>Exclamation mark or exclamation point?
I use exclamation mark, but I think point is also used sometimes.
>>59951438
>Also, it's period (not full stop).
Women have periods, sentences have full stops.
>>59951438
So why not both points? Is it to taunt us? It is, isn't it.
>>59951375
What ?
>>59951473
13th floor is too spoOoOoOoky for them.
>>59951454
No, ships have full stops.
>>59950744
It's the first floor so it's called the first floor. The ground floor is the dirt, it doesn't need a name. maybe brits name their patches of dirt but we don't. If I have four floors then I will name them consecutively. Naming the first floor the 0th dirt floor doesn't make sense because it's not a zero, it's a 1. You can't have a 0 amount of something.
>>59951408
Thanks.
I was hoping someone would appreciate my self-deprecating humor
>>59951494
>No, ships have full stops.
No they don't...
>>59951438
>Also, it's period
I thought a period was the descriptive/descripting term for those little gasps your people of colou color make when debating privilege.
>>59950744
>tfw we use the same principle as the Brits
Confuses me greatly sometimes.
>>59951545
I have literally never heard it in that context.
>>59950975
criminally underappreciated post
>>59951533
Well Enterprise did.
>>59951545
>he thinks negroids stumbling over their own words and gasping and guffawing while they try to argue about niggerbabble isn't a beautiful art form
RACIS
>>59951568
Well, obviously I'm taking the piss but you don't know about those debating techniques? It's crazy to watch.
>ground floor
>floor made of ground
brits are cavemen
>>59951608
Video? I seriously have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
>>59951593
Nobody cares about Star Trek here.
>>59951454
Full stop is like bringing your car down to 0 mph at a stop sign instead of doing a rolling stop.
>>59951632
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
Ah ah ah
>>59951677
>Full stop is like bringing your car down to 0 mph at a stop sign instead of doing a rolling stop.
No, a "rolling stop" is a crime. And crime is for...?
>>59951681
I don't know who calls those gasps a period.
They both make sense depending on how you look at it. I'm personally more inclined on calling the ground-level room the first floor because it's more convenient to start counting from the very bottom up when transversing a building, but whatever.
>>59951681
Not what in the name of fuck is happening there, Yank bros?
>>59951709
No, a rolling stop is an infraction. There's a difference.
>>59951681
My sides... She could challenge Eminem to a rap god challenge tho.
>>59951725
white leftists creating little black monsters.
>>59951681
>this is considered debating in America
Concern.
>yanks will defend this
>>59951681
Black people are like Pokémon
Nig nig nig NIIGGAA nig nig NIGGA nig..nig nig....NNNNIIIIGHUUUURGHHHH NIGGGURRRRRRRRRGH...nig nig.. nigger
"I counted the floors to this building from the street."
"There's one missing..."
What did he mean by this?
>>59951772
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhgwy9y5ttA
>>59951770
Yanks have their own English. Good luck to them.
>>59951811
Well, there's also more of us.
>>59951321
I was just having a spot of fun, Pablo. Does fun anger you? Are you unhappy that others are enjoying themselves while you, are not? At what age did your mother stop loving you? These are all important questions.
>>59951836
I hear some of you have no accents too.
That's some faceless god shit.
>>59951770
i'll defend the two non-meme ones
>ZIP CODE
ZIP codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963. The term ZIP, an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan,[1] was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more efficiently, and therefore more quickly (zipping along), when senders use the code in the postal address.
so it's just our name for it 2bh
>FALL
The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".[16]
During the 17th century, English emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak, and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America
so "Autumn" is just brits tryin to be fancy and pretend that they're roman instead of germanic. in america we kept it real and didn't want to pretend we're something we're not 2bh
>>59951836
Quality > quantity :^)
>>59950975
>applying the same retarded logic as the retarded americans do in this thread
>americans say it's wrong
>>59951875
R E K T
Well done my son
>>59951875
L-lad..Thought you'd forsaken you old dad completely.
Americans can't be this retarded right? Pls god let this be a shitpost!
>>59951942
>talks about retardation
>Speaks retarded German
Yeah, nah.
>>59951942
Unless you're Frisian.
Then you just speak retarded English.
>>59951953
>too retarded for free healthcare
>too retarded for a gun free country
>too retarded for metric system
>doesn't speak an original language
>doesn't know that dutch is more like english
Nah
>>59952009
4.5/10 might troll someone
Let's talk about measurements, int!
Why is imperial so much better than Metric?
The conversions are just so sensible:
>12 inches in a foot
>3 feet in a yard
>5.5 yards in a rod
>4 rods in a chain
>10 chains in a furlong
>8 furlongs in a mile
>~3.45234 miles in a league
"It just works"
>>59952002
Our language began looking like english since 80 years ago. english was and still is one of the easiest languages. so we applied their grammar to our language. And now we have this. And if you're from the east you speak german/dutch. This is something compared to Frisian. Frisian is the language we spoke 120 years ago. I'j bunt mien ne mo'gool, this is what I speak. Now go and speak british AKA english.
>>59951870
A lot of California is generally considered unaccented.
>>59952009
>too retarded for free healthcare
>too retarded for a gun free country
You don't have either of those things.
>>59952100
10mm in 1cm
10cm in 1dm
10dm in 1m
10m in 1dam
10dam in 1hm
10hm in 1km
>imperial one is betr hurr-durr
>almost the entire world uses metric
>>59951298
top kek
There's more french, old french and latin words in use than germanic, only the structure is germanic.
Practically ever other words is french.
>>59952314
Not exactly free but for less than €140 you are covered for everything unless you caused it. If you want to cover your own risk you'll have to pay the first €385 which is cheap considering what you guys need to pay for a hospital. That dutch guy who posted was a roastie
>>59950744
i need to agree with britbongs on this one
>>59952394
Words are only part of what a language is, dingus.
>>59952646
Maybe re-read my post you upside down chinky leb cricket watching poofter cunt
>>59952676
You act as if everything else is a minor detail. It's really not.
>>59952342
1000mg in 1g
1000g in kg
1000kg in 1 tonne
1000 tonnes in 1 American
>>59952295
Vast majority of Californians have Midwest accents. This is mostly due to the fact California was settled by the Midwest during the gold rush and more recently during the dust bowl. For the most part Mexican-Americans end up with this accent because of exposure.
t. Californian
>>59952778
Act-Old French
Minor-Old French/latin
Detail-French
Really-Old French/latin
The filler is "germanic". Words with substance that give actual meaning are old french, latin or french.
Also, good job putting words in my mouth.
>>59951770
I get that this is a joke image, but for some reason it appears Brits unironically think Americans don't say Autumn. We use Autumn and Fall interchangeably.
>>59952925
Californian is its own accent and has little to do with Rubes foreigners. The Rednecks is Bakersfield still sound and look foreign to coastal Californians.
>>59952944
A lot of the time, it's French words that are filler.
I didn't put any words in your mouth either. Syntax, intonation, phonemes, all that shit is still Germanic. French verbs are changed to conform with Germanic verb tenses, the pronunciation of many French words has changed to conform with Germanic roots, and Germanic morphemes are often combined with French ones to produce new words.
By minimising the Germanic origins of English, you're just being wrong. Don't be wrong.
>>59953126
Personally, I think the Germanic version makes more sense.
>>59953126
>>59953147
But you're wrong. Even in your cherry picked examples germanic words are mostly filler "in" "of" "the" "to" "I" "is" "a" "and" while all the latin words have meaning on their own.
For fucks sake the last box looks like he's talking about dicks being put in or some shit.
>>59953262
That example wasn't cherry picked. I just took a random Calvin and Hobbes comic and did that to see what it would look like.
That last panel doesn't mean anything, you idiot. It's a completely nonsensical string of rubbish. That's the joke, and that was my point.
>>59951196
underrated post. russia greatest ally
American way :
3
2
1
-1
-2
British way:
2
1
0
-1
-2
Which is rational?
>yanks will defend this
>>59956030
The Americans use two different number systems depending on whether they are above or below ground, what do you think?
>yanks will defend this
>yanks will defend this
>yanks will defend this
>yanks
>will
>defend
>this
>>59950744
It's called the ground floor because it's on the ground you mug
>Brits get assblasted about being called out on their backwards system.
>yanks will defend this
>yanks will defend this.
desu we have the same system as brits
>yanks will defend this.
>>59950744
I guess they don't have basements in bongland
>>59956030
American way because the first floor exists
>>59957760
>>59958808
>>59957790
what exactly am I looking at
>>59959264
GERRY ADAMS
E
Z
Z
A
>>59959328
why would I defend an irish politician posting what appears to be next level ironic shit on facebook
>>59959411
>yanks will defend this
>>59957760
>>59957790
>>59958808
>>59959328
>>59959447
>this man has killed/ordered the killing of people
Makes you think
What's the first floor you encounter upon entering a building? Checkm8, atheists.
>>59959607
The ground floor.
You then go up to the first actual floor.
>>59959607
The ground.
As you haven't changed level dumb Yank.
>>59951196
agreed
idk why bolan uses the brit way of numbering floors
its bretty dumb imho
>>59950744
The British way is done in Australia, therefore it is right
>accepting british naming conventions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5YKLxWRXo4
>>59951361
Before a baby's first birthday, the are 0 years old
>>59959651
"The second floor I get to while walking trying to reach the top of the building is the first floor. "
Typical bong lingo
>this thread
>>59959733
Maybe because the German speakers use it too? Not even trying to be a dick more that you were under their control for a while.
Ground floor makes sense cause you are on the same level as the ground before you entered the building, then once you enter the building you are going up one floor.
>>59956073
Is that real?
>>59951067
Oz cucked by the Yanks once again
>>59961490
prepare to be disgusted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-N1SYTyAM8
>>59959264
A literal terrorist and murderer
>>59961831
Fucking Yanks, they're worse than muzzies sometimes.
>>59950975
Only good post in this garbage thread.
>tfw I wish Q would murder everyone on this board with a snap of his fingers
>>59950744
Because the second floor is the first floor actually built, when you're on the first floor you're actually just standing on the ground
Planta baja
>>59951019
You're standing on the same level as ground? ground floor. You're standing on top of a single storey? first floor
>>59950744
They're right though
>>59962887
>>59951019
because floor is below you, not above
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7175853/Brit-lad-rushed-to-hospital-in-a-serious-condition-after-collapsing-while-downing-75-shots-of-Sambuca-at-a-bar-in-Magaluf.html
Brits will defend this.
>>59951196
It's only useful for retards, who can't be bothered to properly learn the language.
>>59963312
>Shagaluf
No surprise, what a lad.
>>59951770
>All of the Brit-English words after Autumn
My sides. How has no one picked up on that yet?
>>59963312
>I took last night off to recover, but I'm going back out tonight and will probably be drinking pints and jagerbombs.
Top lad
>>59959169
And it does in the British system.
>>59959784
Most likely an American app. I wouldn't use it.
>>59963675
>>59951770
/r/ a print screen of that ebic bread related to this. You know which one I'm talking about
I don't get it. Larger buildings I've been to have called it the ground floor in the elevator. Not sure why someone wouldn't? Do they do this out west or something?
>>59963312
>shots
>sambuca
I don't think you're meant to drink them that way
>>59956073
Says who?
