It's only okay when brown people don't speak the language!
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American English, like the rest of our standards, is one of the best languages. People consider it hard to learn because it's so flexible but it's also more normalized and plain than any other language. Counting to 100 in any European garbage language shows how fucked their systems are. The French, especially, have cultural language police that REFUSE to let the language evolve to better interface with modern life.
Same with Imperial. It's just a better system. It's why they hate it so much. They gave a bunch of nerds high positions in society and a lot of money over centuries and they all produced a bunch of fashionable uninformed non-working bullshit. Meanwhile the busy working people put together a system that gets work done and is no more complex than their system. They've just never been able to admit this or get over it.
Fuckin' eurotrash. They all already know English. They just refuse to use it. Zero service in those people. Never go there never spend your money there.
Imperial and Metric both have their value. Metric is good for very large or small numbers, so mostly math and academic. Imperial is useful for everyday scenarios and trade work, because its always focused around useful default sizes and being divisible by 2/3/4s.
The fact that they act like Imperial has no use or is inferior shows just how little actual work most of them do, or how much they pride themselves on using a tool system designed for micro and macro science for their simple baking.
Its the same with American English. Its hugely flexible to be used by a common man or idiot to accomplish so many tasks. You can bend words to mean all sorts of things, break its rules, and generally just make shit up and it'll still work quite naturally. You can learn to speak it with zero time spent studying, just embroiling into slang.
Whereas many European languages are riddled with rules and genders that you need to memorize by the thousands, and they will scoff at you if you didn't know this word you never heard before was feminine and not masculine (its an inanimate object). Sure Germans have a word for everything, by just jamming dozens of other words into something incomprehensible to say outloud.
I'll take metric for 'everyday' use seriously when they start calling 2,000 kilometers "2 megameters".
Until then they're just poseurs.
I'd bet most "Metric users" don't even know Deci/Deka exist. And those would be the most useful of their prefixes for normal use possible.
Instead they are 154cm tall, because big number make their pp feel big I guess.
That's the other thing. They never utilize half their own units like decimeters or mega meters.
Or how many of them actually know that 1 cc is also 1 ml?
I've found plenty of imperial fans that will say metric is useful under certain circumstances. I've never seen the reverse. And it's not because metric is perfect. It's because they are so snobby they can't stand the idea that "the American" system has any merit.
And the proof that both systems have merit is that two big nations use both: Canada and Mexico. Maybe not officially but every tradesman in those those countries uses imperial. Fact. And I'm sure chemists in Mexico use metric. A measuring system is a tool just as much as a hammer or a microscope. And just like different tools are for different jobs, so can different measuring systems.
But Europeans are so far up their own ass they can't admit this.
The irony being that it came from Europe, and then Europe switched. Just like the word "soccer".