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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

That's because in some languages the word for "floor" is not sinonimous to "ground", and thus floor means somethimg that is above the ground.