The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 2 months agoThis is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up1652arrow-down110
arrow-up1642arrow-down1imageThis is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me.lemmy.worldThe Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to Just Post@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square316fedilink
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·edit-22 months agoExcept in Spain they use “PB”, which makes even less sense unless you know it’s planta baja. It’d be better if there were a zero. At least the English use “0” or “G”.
minus-squareglaber@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoG doesn’t make sense either unless you know it means “ground”. It goes both ways
minus-squareZeffSyde@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoYeah, even in the US ‘G’ can mean ‘Garage’ in some buildings, which may be the ground floor or the first sub-floor. Then you can have ‘L’ for Lobby, but in some cases it means Lower. Jane? Get me off this crazy thing.
Same thing in Spain
Except in Spain they use “PB”, which makes even less sense unless you know it’s planta baja. It’d be better if there were a zero. At least the English use “0” or “G”.
G doesn’t make sense either unless you know it means “ground”. It goes both ways
Yeah, even in the US ‘G’ can mean ‘Garage’ in some buildings, which may be the ground floor or the first sub-floor.
Then you can have ‘L’ for Lobby, but in some cases it means Lower.
Jane? Get me off this crazy thing.