What do ya'll people who use sane unit systems rather than our US nonsense system call "mileage"
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@futurebird I think the English word has several meanings, doesn't it?
Polish uses "zasięg" (range, literally "reach"), "zużycie" ("consumption", kWh/100km) and "przebieg" (number of kilometres driven, literally "ran through").
@skolima @futurebird and for that last one we also have kilometraż, because we do love borrowing from french. 🙂
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What do ya'll people who use sane unit systems rather than our US nonsense system call "mileage"
"distance traveled" ?
"meterage??"
"kilometerage?"
(American ants talk about "inchage")
@futurebird centipedes and millipedes both use “footage”, but they have to remember to shift one decimal place when communicating between the two.
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@ehproque You, of course, know about all those crazy Spanish demonyms. Or even ordinals, which are so delightfully convoluted that official grammar dispenses with them for all quantities above thirteen… @cocaine_owlbear @futurebird
@brucknerite @cocaine_owlbear @futurebird yeah you may have no idea where an egabrense is from, but at least you don't need to guess to pronounce it!
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@skolima @futurebird and for that last one we also have kilometraż, because we do love borrowing from french. 🙂
@skolima @futurebird fwiw i think centimetrage sounds nicer than inchage (and there's always millimetrage as an option for the less active ants)
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@futurebird centipedes and millipedes both use “footage”, but they have to remember to shift one decimal place when communicating between the two.
@futurebird @Moss
Millipedes are the ones with three rows of legs, yes? -
What do ya'll people who use sane unit systems rather than our US nonsense system call "mileage"
"distance traveled" ?
"meterage??"
"kilometerage?"
(American ants talk about "inchage")
@futurebird The French say "kilometráge", in German it is "kilometerstand".
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@futurebird idk the English word but in French it's either kilometrage ou borne.
@eowyn @futurebird chilometraggio in Italian too if you're talking about how much distance was traveled, consumo (which would be consumption) if you're talking about distance per fuel spent