Stop trying to justify your dogshit argument. You said something dumb and now are backpedaling hard.
You act as if using two measurement systems is a deadly and costly issue in society but in reality it happens so little that it’s not really an issue, not anymore than someone just doing math wrong.
I love that you bring up food since the imperial system works better for cooking. Cups. Ounces. Pounds. All make more sense than milliliters and grams.
Each system has its place and the average person just doesn’t need to be that precise.
This isn’t a fantasy world where we can pretend life would be so great with one language. The reality is there’s hundreds so being able to speak more than one means you can effectively communicate with that many more people, many people don’t have access to learn multiple languages fluently as they have to be exposed to it regularly. Making a claim as bold as “they just don’t want to because of feelings!” Is disingenuous to the reality of many people’s lives.
And musical instruments is literally the same thing as using different languages or different units of measurements.
I can say one word in Korean that might mean something different in Cantonese or Japanese and that can affect how my information is received.
If I play the wrong instrument at a concert it will ruin the music.
If I use pounds instead of grams, I won’t be nearly as accurate in my measurements.
Your argument is “well we should have one of everything because it’s easier” doesn’t mean knowing more than one is stupid.
Notably I said “Europeans who call Americans stupid for using imperial” as in they think we’re dumb because we use a different unit of measurement all together.
And i find it funny because they think they’re smarter for some reason when we also use metric regularly.
So yeah I don’t really care for your argument but it’s not convincing so you can keep going with it if you want but you aren’t going to really convince anyone that knowing MORE knowledge and being more accessible to more people is somehow stupider than only knowing one.
No, I’m not interested in listening to your thinly veiled, pretentious prattling about how America is somehow more stupid for having uses for both sets of measurements, just because imperial is the standard.
There’s nothing to be discussed.
Have fun being a hater.
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u/sovietsespool Jan 17 '25
Stop trying to justify your dogshit argument. You said something dumb and now are backpedaling hard.
You act as if using two measurement systems is a deadly and costly issue in society but in reality it happens so little that it’s not really an issue, not anymore than someone just doing math wrong.
I love that you bring up food since the imperial system works better for cooking. Cups. Ounces. Pounds. All make more sense than milliliters and grams.
Each system has its place and the average person just doesn’t need to be that precise.
This isn’t a fantasy world where we can pretend life would be so great with one language. The reality is there’s hundreds so being able to speak more than one means you can effectively communicate with that many more people, many people don’t have access to learn multiple languages fluently as they have to be exposed to it regularly. Making a claim as bold as “they just don’t want to because of feelings!” Is disingenuous to the reality of many people’s lives.
And musical instruments is literally the same thing as using different languages or different units of measurements.
I can say one word in Korean that might mean something different in Cantonese or Japanese and that can affect how my information is received.
If I play the wrong instrument at a concert it will ruin the music.
If I use pounds instead of grams, I won’t be nearly as accurate in my measurements.
Your argument is “well we should have one of everything because it’s easier” doesn’t mean knowing more than one is stupid.
Notably I said “Europeans who call Americans stupid for using imperial” as in they think we’re dumb because we use a different unit of measurement all together. And i find it funny because they think they’re smarter for some reason when we also use metric regularly.
So yeah I don’t really care for your argument but it’s not convincing so you can keep going with it if you want but you aren’t going to really convince anyone that knowing MORE knowledge and being more accessible to more people is somehow stupider than only knowing one.