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This is a bigger culture shock than the metric vs imperial system to me. (lemmy.world)

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[-] [email protected] 72 points 1 week ago

I'm American and I often think we do things wrong...

but not this. First floor on the SECOND floor. It's just wrong.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

It's the first upstairs.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

Right, the first floor after you ascend from the... Initial floor, which is on the ground, QED.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

How many floors do you count in a two storey house? Do you have ground + 1 floor, or so you have a house with a floor in top of the ground and a floor up the stairs? If you have two floors, you can one the first and the other "second floor"

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