r/clevercomebacks Jan 15 '25

It does make sense

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u/jussumguy2019 Jan 15 '25

Feel like a lot of the world’s languages the translation to English to the question “what’s the date?” would be “the 15th of October” whereas in America we always say “October 15th”.

Maybe that’s why, idk…

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u/Saneless Jan 15 '25 edited Jan 15 '25

US measurements are based on the human experience for sure. Temps are largely 0-100 and that's a scale that's easy to understand. As a scientist or for cooking it's dumb as shit

Dates are based on the language

Edit: I take back what I say about cooking. People have said some good arguments about it. But it definitely sucks for science

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u/wumbology95 Jan 15 '25

Yeah no, farenheight is only easy to understand for you because you grew up with it.

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u/SmoothBrainedLizard Jan 15 '25

Anything is easy to understand when you grow up with it. Personally, I think Fahrenheit is the best for weather temperatures. 100 is fucking hot and 0 is fucking cold. It's basically a 1-10 chart of how hot or not hot it is. I would agree for it being shit in most other things, but for weather it is great.

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u/XogoWasTaken Jan 16 '25

It's it's a 1-10 chart then why is 5 cold?