I’m familiar with Metric AND Imperial and not just because the US uses a blend but because both science and science fiction have been interests of mine since early childhood. Americans just hate syllables. 4 feet is two syllables while 1.3 meters is 5 syllables. Hell, quarts are almost the same thing as liters just with fewer syllables , same as yards and meters.
If you had more of an intuition for metric units, then it wouldn’t occur to you to think of “4 feet” as something to optimize for. It means nothing. It’s an entirely arbitrary preference. You’d just think “a metre and a half” and you wouldn’t have to grope for “syllables” as a rationalization for it.
Your preferences mean nothing. You prefer what’s familiar, just like everyone else.
I’m familiar with Metric AND Imperial and not just because the US uses a blend but because both science and science fiction have been interests of mine since early childhood. Americans just hate syllables. 4 feet is two syllables while 1.3 meters is 5 syllables. Hell, quarts are almost the same thing as liters just with fewer syllables , same as yards and meters.
Sure.
If you had more of an intuition for metric units, then it wouldn’t occur to you to think of “4 feet” as something to optimize for. It means nothing. It’s an entirely arbitrary preference. You’d just think “a metre and a half” and you wouldn’t have to grope for “syllables” as a rationalization for it.
You’re grasping at straws here bud
Cool. Peace.
1.3 meter is actually 4.2651 feet.
That’s dumb and a lot more syllables.
If you actually were familiar with metric, you wouldn’t say dumb shit like:
Because you’d actually know about things like centimeter and decimeter.
So no, you are definitely not familiar with metric. Try to learn sometime.