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(DIR) Post #B3RoXjNNH742jHvf0q by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T13:52:50Z
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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")
(DIR) Post #B3RogWagBEXJgNLTuq by eowyn@pouet.chapril.org
2026-02-18T13:54:22Z
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@futurebird idk the English word but in French it's either kilometrage ou borne.
(DIR) Post #B3RohIVM2KnWHlDuHQ by zardoz03@mastodon.online
2026-02-18T13:54:21Z
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@futurebird mileage still gets used in ireland despite being metric, its got a sort of sticking factor idk
(DIR) Post #B3RoluTomtVNDohiam by harmonia_amanda@eldritch.cafe
2026-02-18T13:55:21Z
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@futurebird I've no idea in English but kilometerage is a mirror of the actual French word yes
(DIR) Post #B3RonOee5IpZ62TfF2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T13:55:39Z
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@harmonia_amanda Nice!
(DIR) Post #B3Rowrb3qbkTSuJaeO by harmonia_amanda@eldritch.cafe
2026-02-18T13:57:20Z
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@futurebird for ants I wouldn't be surprised if I read centimeterage, that would make sense to me
(DIR) Post #B3Rozrm9df8ktAw4lU by FandaSin@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-18T13:57:52Z
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@futurebird Mileage is used here too. (it never appeared to me that it's wrongly calledš)
(DIR) Post #B3Rp3ilj4Ho673ZbmK by ehproque@neopaquita.es
2026-02-18T13:58:34Z
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@futurebird Spaniards use L/100kms. There may be a word that's equivalent to mileage but to my knowledge nobody uses it
(DIR) Post #B3Rp6gyADN5NOuo8i8 by petealexharris@mastodon.scot
2026-02-18T13:59:06Z
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@futurebird In the UK we call distance "distance". I've always understood mileage to be about "miles per gallon" or metaphorically how far something *can* go, not just how far something is from something else.But all our road signs are still in miles so it's not like we've completely got rid of the insane units.
(DIR) Post #B3Rp7bl14vRBWe5wdE by zockbursche@social.tchncs.de
2026-02-18T13:59:14Z
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@futurebird Kilometerstand in German
(DIR) Post #B3RpFOTgKrYsekhQAa by ivanvector@oceanplayground.social
2026-02-18T13:59:22Z
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@futurebird In Canada at least, we call it "mileage". It is measured in kilometers, or liters per hundred kilometers for fuel consumption, or hours and minutes if it's how far away is the next town.
(DIR) Post #B3RpLOCsFx9XYLhFcO by raganwald@social.bau-ha.us
2026-02-18T14:01:45Z
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@futurebird Everyone I know in Canada calls it mileage. But we measure it empirically with litres per 100km. So not only are the units different, so is the construction. This works extremely well, we have yet to lose a moon shot by getting the mileage units wrong.Alas, with volume we did not get a second layer of disambiguation, and yes it did cause an incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
(DIR) Post #B3RpRACZEtcnr4J3qK by ptoothfish@mastodon.nz
2026-02-18T14:02:48Z
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@futurebird in new zealand (metric conversion happened 1969-1976) we still call the fuel efficiency or lifetime distance travelled of a car "mileage" but we measure it in litres/100km or km
(DIR) Post #B3RpytdTL0a8K1yZaC by toni@zug.network
2026-02-18T14:08:53Z
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@futurebird Hmmā¦ For the three definitions of āmileageā in en.wikipedia.org, in German:Distance traveled in the life time of a car: Tachostand (tachograph status).Distance traveled from a point: ZurĆ¼ckgelegte Strecke (traveled distance).Fuel economy: Spritverbrauch (fuel usage), measured in litre/100km.Business mileage reimbursement rate: No such thing, afaik.
(DIR) Post #B3RrNruwxkOWBfcfQG by DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
2026-02-18T14:24:37Z
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@futurebird "one minute of latitude"You know, like a normal person
(DIR) Post #B3Rs39BleZMNcsAjPk by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-18T14:32:07Z
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@DaveMWilburn A fortnight of latitude is nearly the circumference of the earth. It's short by about one fifth.
(DIR) Post #B3RssIAK2PMAEesquG by leonardof@bertha.social
2026-02-18T14:41:18Z
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@futurebird in Brazil we have "quilometragem" (for km)
(DIR) Post #B3RtqG2P4sC10lm1ke by oantolin@mathstodon.xyz
2026-02-18T14:52:09Z
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@futurebird in Mexico people say kilometros por litro (Spain prefers reciprocal units: litres per 100km). There is a word kilometraje, but unlike mileage, it doesn't do double duty: it only means total number of km a car has traveled, not both that and km/L.
(DIR) Post #B3RuQoBHbxiHKVM7Bw by rk@mastodon.well.com
2026-02-18T14:58:45Z
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@futurebird @DaveMWilburn āAnd who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.ā
(DIR) Post #B3Rxok0h4N7dCsVRlA by Moss@beige.party
2026-02-18T15:36:41Z
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@futurebird centipedes and millipedes both use āfootageā, but they have to remember to shift one decimal place when communicating between the two.
(DIR) Post #B3S1Fd8X270TZOgZxQ by whvholst@eupolicy.social
2026-02-18T16:15:05Z
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@futurebird The French say "kilometrƔge", in German it is "kilometerstand".
(DIR) Post #B3SAQVRqrFHGUuz1m4 by Daveosaurus@mastodon.nz
2026-02-18T17:57:59Z
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@futurebird We've been metric since the 1970s and still call it "mileage", The same way phones still have "dial" tones but they're all push-button now, or that work still has smoko at 3 p.m even though smoking indoors has been prohibited for at least 20 years.
(DIR) Post #B3SV49CoyKVQBG8IDo by Unixbigot@aus.social
2026-02-18T21:49:14Z
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@futurebird we call it fuel consumption and flip the fraction the other way up. Cars report ālitres per 100 kmā
(DIR) Post #B3SYP3gSzsOOzyf6P2 by trib@aus.social
2026-02-18T22:26:36Z
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@futurebird @futzle "fuel/energy consumption" (in x km per litre of fuel/kW electricity)
(DIR) Post #B3SbOQ60U5AS54zlhY by thefathippy@mastodon.world
2026-02-18T23:00:07Z
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@futurebirdMileage rules amongst Aussies I know. Nobody. NOBODY says kilometreage. Ever.Economy or efficiency are also used, sometimes prefixed with fuel. If I'm talking about distance, as Kit says hours, or ks (or clicks). Yeah, it's about two hours away. Yeah, it's about 200ks (200 clicks) away. š
(DIR) Post #B3SbkIhodp7fX176tU by acb@mastodon.social
2026-02-18T23:04:04Z
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@futurebird @futzle in Australian and British English, āmileageā survives as a fossil, much in the way that the past tense of āgoā bears witness to the archaic verb āwendā
(DIR) Post #B3Sbmpf55DDoK02dvc by slothrop@chaos.social
2026-02-18T23:04:33Z
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@futurebird German here. When speaking English, we do say āmileageā (at least where I work).As others have remarked, itās āKilometerstandā (kilometer status) otherwise.
(DIR) Post #B3SboieQ7TDF9pdGds by MrAndrewD@aus.social
2026-02-18T23:04:52Z
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@futurebird Distance?
(DIR) Post #B3ScuSBEN1QjlYHGFc by cocaine_owlbear@retro.pizza
2026-02-18T23:17:08Z
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@futurebird "inchage" sounds dirty.
(DIR) Post #B3ShZq6IjsJFdxxfXc by stufromoz@aus.social
2026-02-19T00:09:26Z
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@futurebird distance
(DIR) Post #B3SqcVuX9xrvTxo7NI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2026-02-19T01:50:47Z
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@kim @Unixbigot um
(DIR) Post #B3SvzFLlOk2aYECeLA by thorne@rants.au
2026-02-19T02:50:53Z
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@futurebird @Unixbigot EV people seem to always talk ārangeā, and have this glorious stat called ācharging speedā which is literally a speed (kilometres per hour or miles per hour) but it measures how fast you can add range to the battery. Numbers are usually absurd, in excess of Mach 1.
(DIR) Post #B3T5G4z25qWSuTfjyy by lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br
2026-02-19T04:33:07Z
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hey, that kind of speed could conceivably exceed the speed of light!CC: @futurebird@sauropods.win @Unixbigot@aus.social
(DIR) Post #B3TdSphdc8snixmyLA by leonardof@bertha.social
2026-02-19T10:58:02Z
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@futurebird don't know where he's from, but: "your distance may vary"https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViUndoMyViews
(DIR) Post #B3Tq4eo1mAnoNka1XU by Klara@drupal.community
2026-02-19T13:19:16Z
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@futurebird in Dutch: "afstand" = distance (as in "200 kilometer") or in areas with chronically slow traffic: "... uren rijden" = number of hours driving