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this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Is it ridiculous to include it? Or were you taught that? We were taught to include it, granted, we have to deal with metric and imperial measurements from imports, but why is it ridiculous to make sure you’re providing the right information?
I would laugh if my buddy told me it was going to be 90 f tomorrow. Obviously it’s Fahrenheit, it’s not possible to be 90 c where we are.
Sure but than you get in the habit of not adding it when it’s needed. I may be a little biased since almost everything I work with is imperial in a metric country, but my buddies would laugh with me since they know the distinction is important to us.
Ridiculous is definitely not the right word to use in this case, I will admit. I think my point still stands though. Many people are used to being in a situation where people implicitly understand what they're referring to. If people can shorten language in any way while still retaining the same meaning they will in a lot of cases.
Most people not in the US need to deal with both in most casual conversations. So they need to clarify almost all units.
I’m in a trade, almost every material is imperial in my metric world. Everyone I deal with with knows the confusion that can happen, so it’s always unit denotions on everything.
I see you're Canadian so I can understand your frustrations (I wish the US would go metric personally) and I agree that if there is a chance of confusion, defaulting to being more specific is always correct. I'd say generalizing this to a situation where absolutely everyone else is also using mixed standards is not correct either.
There are also a lot of places in the world where you can be making small talk with a stranger about the weather and how nice a day it is at 22 today and both parties would understand the statement.
On the same vein of your last point, start talking about the weather that isn’t right at that second, now confusion can seep in.
“Today is nice at 22, but man back home it was -10 last week.” “Oh thats right, that last one is Fahrenheit since that’s local to me. What’s that in Celsius?”