What do ya'll people who use sane unit systems rather than our US nonsense system call "mileage"

[mees@sunny.garden]

@mahryekuh @futurebird I think mileage also means how many miles a car can go per their unit of gas measurement? Is it galleons? Where we (the Dutch) just use numbers, say the car rides 1 on 11, meaning it uses 1L for 11km. No idea if that is a good mileage, I've never had a car 😂

[mahryekuh@hachyderm.io]

@mees @futurebird 1 on 11 in this economy? 🥲

[cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza]

@brucknerite @ehproque @futurebird in USAican English, Mileage has multiple meanings, including reported length of travel, i.e. "What's your milage."

The most common use is a measure of how far a certain amount of fuel will take your vehicle, but English being English, everything is more complicated and confused than it needs to be.

[cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza]

@svavar @futurebird we do! 1 football field is about 100 meters. Then we have decifootball field, centifootball field, milifootball field…

[amenonsen@flipping.rocks]

@futurebird "Mileage" in India too, though we use kilometres. The readings on "milestones" are in kilometres too.

[brucknerite@social.brucknerite.net]

@cocaine_owlbear @ehproque @futurebird Spanish is quite complicated too, I assure you. And thanks for the clarification, makes sense to me.

[mees@sunny.garden]

@mahryekuh @futurebird when I was little, my parents had a car that drove 1 on 7 for a while. Not very long, somehow.

[cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza]

@brucknerite @ehproque @futurebird all natural languags are complicated! English is just famous for being obtuse. Although that's more to do with spelling than idiom or vocabulary, I'll admit.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@cocaine_owlbear @brucknerite @futurebird of course English is three languages on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat, we do have an advantage in the consistency department!

[brucknerite@social.brucknerite.net]

@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

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@skolima @futurebird and for that last one we also have kilometraż, because we do love borrowing from french. 🙂

[moss@beige.party]

@futurebird centipedes and millipedes both use “footage”, but they have to remember to shift one decimal place when communicating between the two.

[ehproque@neopaquita.es]

@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!

[mawhrin@circumstances.run]

@skolima @futurebird fwiw i think centimetrage sounds nicer than inchage (and there's always millimetrage as an option for the less active ants)

[nick_appleyard@mastodonapp.uk]

@futurebird @Moss
Millipedes are the ones with three rows of legs, yes?

[whvholst@eupolicy.social]

@futurebird The French say "kilometráge", in German it is "kilometerstand".

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@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