We only use BRitish Terms for chemistry in this house that way my lab is IUPAC certified. Every other standard is American and i'm bigger than just a North American head we use GLOBAL standards invented by people like Sir Issac Newton
Even though I spell CHECK and COLOR the American way because I am culturally not british I lean more American but for scientific terms NEVER because they are simply wrong.
As for measurements, I just use both like a normal person. Both systems are good, everyone should use both. IT's not grammes it's GRAMS
One day I will ship someone a yellow COLOR sulphur from CANADA and they will think i'm completely insane
Originally posted by Meikai
In all honesty: this started life as a PM to someone who speaks Bri'ish, but I was like "nah fuck it this'd be funnier as a thread" and so I just copy-pasted it to here.
If I've done the same before, it is also likely because I was trying to communicate with someone who'd call it petrol IRL. Also I specifically don't like saying "huffing gas" because I am autistic and it sounds like I'm talking about huffing some non-specific gaseous thing, so I'd probably default to "huffing gasoline" in conversation with you if we were talking about it. Honestly though, I dunno: my dad is from Liverpool and I grew up hearing British words/pronunciations a lot, so they feel pretty interchangeable to me - he calls it petrol and pronounces "garage" as "gare-edge".
Don't ever dumb down your vernacular for me
(Not that I know what that word means)
RIP 🙏
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Originally posted by Meikai
For as much shit as I gave my dad about "aluminium" and his other Britishisms when I was a child, I am eternally grateful to him for the optionality it introduced to my use of the language. It all feels ~natural to me. Probably wouldn't have half as refined a grasp of English were it not for his indirect, osmotic tutelage.
My British friend says "VITamin C" instead of vightamin and I always laugh so he's taken to calling it "vit C" which sounds cooler but It's kinda funny because it doesn't seem like organic slang. I get hepatitis C got shortened to hep C so Mayb it works
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Originally posted by Sudo
Don't ever dumb down your vernacular for me
(Not that I know what that word means)
RIP 🙏
It's not so much a dumbing down thing as it is... just using the words I think people expect to hear? It's basically "code switching", except I'm white and so are you. I dunno. There's a bunch of different ways of speaking and I don't know if any of them are dumber than the others. AAVE and Southern dialects/accents seem to get a lot of flak for being 'dumb' I guess, but I just see them as options. 🤷♀️
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Originally posted by Meikai
It's not so much a dumbing down thing as it is… just using the words I think people expect to hear? It's basically "code switching", except I'm white and so are you. I dunno. There's a bunch of different ways of speaking and I don't know if any of them are dumber than the others. AAVE and Southern dialects/accents seem to get a lot of flak for being 'dumb' I guess, but I just see them as options. 🤷♀️
What's code switching is that how I say I HURRRRD DAT when I'm eating oxtail my Black Peeps
Originally posted by I Live In Your Crawlspace Secretly4
What's code switching is that how I say I HURRRRD DAT when I'm eating oxtail my Black Peeps
Yeah, although code switching seems like an inherently political/ideological framing that - to my limited understanding - excludes white people code switching to sound more like minorities. That's just a microaggression or something.
But yeah, if we get rid of the political garbage and just take the useful parts of the term, that's code switching.
Only Canadians can know and understand toques. If you have to look up what it means YOU WILL NEVER BE ONE OF US
that's the difference when a british or australian person comes here they always don't know what a toque is or the word is just too jarring for them for some reason even though it's french and they spell all their words like retardes anyways
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Originally posted by Ghost
damn these are fucking EVIL. No way this is fake just look at these, gotta be demonic energy involved somehow. I started looking at these a while ago for art inspiration because they are wild as hell and I can't stop looking at them my computer crashed which hasn't happened since I started doing tek.
These album covers have way too much color or something , it yeeted my graphics CHIP. Also staring at them fucked up my vision and now everything looks like the art ive been making, thats how i see reality the fuck
