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[–] [email protected] 12 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Also, did you know aluminum is the original word for the metal? The aluminium spelling was invented by British people after the fact simply because they thought it sounded better. Now they act like we're illiterate for leaving out the second "i"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

it was called aluminum by the original discoverer, but a later physicist called it aluminium so that it would be the same as germanium etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Everyone involved in that was british iirc. The guy that named it spelled it like 4 or 5 different ways and eventually aluminum mostly stuck, but the other science guys wanted everything to end in 'ium'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Ium version also fits in UK accents better

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well, many Americans indeed are illiterate, and this is going to become even worse with Trump and DOGE destroying the education system. But the current system is shit as well, the level of education lacks behind compared to other western countries by far. And then there's the unregulated homeschooling in many states, which religious nut jobs, flat earthers and other conspiracy idiots love to do. Most Americans only speak one language and only learn about the US and it's history while skipping the rest of the world. Many don't even know where the UK is on a world map. Even your vice president didn't know where Greenland was, that it's close to the north pole and fucking cold. There are loads of videos of interviews with random people on the street where the average person can't even tell how many sides a triangle has.

In the movie Idiocracy they predict the world to be extremily dumb in the year 2505 but Americans probably thought this was a goal to work towards, and had trouble reading "2505" and thought it was 2025.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 hours ago

Holy shit dude touch grass

I love a rant as much as the next guy but this is a meme