Misunderstanding between the US and the UK l stereotype Tik Tok reaction (Feat. Chewkz)
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"What is the biggest cultural difference between US and UK"
Well...Christina is right though , there's a lot 🤣🇺🇲🇬🇧
I'd say just about everything is different. The only thing that's similar is the way we measure time (HH:mm:ss) and that we speak the same language.
This dude of TikTok is really a genius about english , funny as well
@Janna Is Chewkz. It's also in the video title.
@Janna Is no problem
maybe because his british? lmao
Another difference is about the Sports : like in US 🇺🇲 is more Basketball , Baseball and of course the Super Bowl event , in UK 🇬🇧 is more football , Premier League , FA Cup and of course the Uefa Champions League , the tournement between the best football teams in Europe , thank you ladies , Christina and Hana 💙❤
You forgot to mention the differences of Football between US🇺🇸🏈and UK🇬🇧⚽.
@@christophermichaelclarence6003 he already mention it (Super Bowl) haha, but he does'nt want to mention football hahahaha, no offense henri 😁
US - Easy: when you play the ball with your hands, it's football
Eu - No,I that's handball
UK - Neither, it's Rugby!
The thing you play with hands are never Football!!!
Are there literally no other popular sports in Europe other than European football, such as rugby, basketball or hockey? What about cricket in the UK? As you said, in the U.S., there is a pretty wide variety: American football, basketball, baseball, hockey, soccer (football) and NASCAR fits somewhere in there. That is probably the order in descending popularity, although NASCAR might be in the middle there.
While in Indonesia, most of us will think that "half ten" means 9.30, because it's already "a half hour" and it took a half more to make it into ten
This. In countries I have lived so far, ”half ten” is 9:30 and thinking otherwise would get you in trouble 😁
same in dutch
I'm from the US and I thought 9:30 as well when he said half ten.
Same in German.
Sampe sekarang gw suka delay ama pengucapan gitu
Can we give props to that dude for getting up prior to 5am to drive his friend to the airport - that's a real friend there!
Dude didn’t even question it. He was just like “5am? Ok, I’ll be there”
I can't believe I'm finding this today. I literally made this joke yesterday.
I was talking to my friend and I said I wanted to be collected at "half five". And then I was like "It's kind of funny the way we say 'half five'. Imagine if you were talking to an American friend and they were like 'half five? Oh, you mean 2:30, because 2.5 is half of five?'" and I made a whole thing out of it, where you could take it even further and call that "half two" and then the American would think you mean 1pm.
Yo Diana u British, that's shocked fam😮
In Canada, Celsius is uses for outdoor and indoor temperatures. Fahrenheit is used for cooking.
Really? 😱
Wow
That’s just ridiculous
@@adog5408 Yeah, I feel like it would make more sense the other way around even. So if you used Celsius for cooking and Fahrenheit for the weather
No, what I meant is that you just use one
The date difference really kills me especially since I work for a multinational company dealing with people from different countries. For written dates I always go by YYYY-MM-DD to avoid any confusion. In spoken language there is no such confusion.
I was born in Canada, studied in the UK and spent the last 25 years working in Switzerland. When I lived in the UK I always understood that half 10 was 10:30 but I found it interesting moving to Switzerland half 10 here or Halb Zehn would be 9:30. The argument the Swiss make is that it is half of the 10th hour of the day, which makes more sense to me when you think of the expression literally.
Indeed, here in the Netherlands 1/2 ten could be 09:30 OR 21:30, so you might want to say explicit: 1/2 10 in the morning (or evening)
Half ten = half PAST ten.
Therefore 10:30 am or pm.
@@joshuddin897 perhaps that is the origin but literally half 10 means half 10. It is like the Americans calling caffe latte latte. Latte is literally milk not milk coffee. Or gas for gasoline which is a liquid and not a gas. English is funny that way making abbreviations which literally mean something different from what they intend.
@@GeoffreyEngelbrecht you make excellent point(s).
@@joshuddin897 Judging by the comments, half ten means 9:30 in the vast majority of countries.
Without any indication of it being "half to" or "half past", the most literal meaning of the expression implies that it's half (to) the hour.
If you want to be even more confused, bring a Swede 😂 !
When we say "half ten" we mean a half hour BEFORE ten, 9.30 . Morning or night, you figure it out from the situation.
In Germany its the same
same in Denmark
I'm realising that is weirdly common -- I heard it first about Germany. (I'm a Brit so you know where I'm coming from with this!)
Same in Indonesia, it's quite common
Same in Russia
But it has more logic than 10:30 imho
@5:45 - A Swede use "military date" (YYYY-MM-DD) but it wasn't that hard moving to Australia just to "turn the date" around to DD/MM/YYYY.
US dates still confuse me at times though...
_I work with computers and when I moved here in 2002 I was asked to help a company create a web interface for a database they had to keep track of jobs, like a ticketing system.
The problem was that their webpage was hosted in California, USA. Queensland, Australia don't use daylight savings time but California do (PST/PDT).
So in my script I had to convert the timestamp from California time to Queensland time... First check what date it was to determine whether it was daylight savings time or not in California. Based on that I had to add 17h or 18h due to the time zone difference taking daylight savings time in consideration. And then finally convert the date format from MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY._
What do you mean half ten is 9:30 in Germany 😂😂😂😂
@Ana Seijas I would think half past 10 would be a half hour (or 30 minutes) after 10 (am or pm, not half hour before 10.
@@CarstenMoreno It's bizarre, but halb zehn is 9:30, halb neun is 8:30 etc. I guess that the reasoning is that it's halfway from the previous hour to the next hour. In UK English, half ten is short for half past ten.
Same in indonesia, i'm so confused to that
@@DavidZ4-gg3dm that's weird phrasing to Americans, we would just say "nine thirty".
In fact, in the military that's how you're supposed to say it too. "ten thirty" or "twenty-two thirty".....
On submarines the 24 hour clock is very important, because the sun is not visible, and of course we operate 24 hours a day, so if someone says to you "three thirty", that's too ambiguous; it is plausible that someone may need to meet you at three thirty AM.
So instead we say the zero, "ZERO three thirty", and if it's three PM, we would say "fifteen thirty".
I don't know how His Majesty's Royal Navy does it, but I would assume it's the same, as our Naval culture is inherited from the Royal Navy. Never create ambiguity when you're dealing with life and death situations. :-)
The Levels of Farenheit thought process.
Anything Negative: Screw this I'm staying home you'd have to be nuts to go out.
01-10: Screw this still staying home where it's warm.
10 to 20: Okay I'll go out if I have too, but I must remember to dry my hair after showering or it'll turn to ice and wear every warm thing I have.
20 to 30: I better layer up.
30 to 40: I better get the winter jacket out.
40 to 50: I can get away with my light jacket if I wear a warm shirt.
50 to 60: Might want to wear my light jacket today.
60 to 70: Now this is nice.
70 to 80: A little hot, but still nice especially when the breeze hits you and I might want to wear shorts.
80 to 90: Okay it's hot now, definitely shorts weather.
90 to 100: This is what Hell is like.
Over 100: Screw this staying home and turning the AC up.
I use Celsius but I'm quite different than most people. I'm fine with a light jacket for -10 to 5 degrees, and anything higher than that, I would have to just wear a t-shirt. I already feel like it's hell when it reaches 15 degrees. Heat waves are like the worst time in my life.
@@ShizuruNakatsuyeah it's totally depends on each person how they feel no matter if it's Celsius or Fahrenheit.
So the main comment doesn't make any sense at all
What Europeans don’t always get is it’s over 12 hours to get through Texas. Some states are the size of your country, so it makes more sense to have vehicles if your not in a city.
The ploblem is America’s urban planning sucks 1950 and above with the inner and outer cities suburbs being designed around automobile use which is one of the more expensive forms of transportation short for helicopters of course. Cars also add more expenses in non transportation based cost like using a much larger land footprint than what public transportation would use. Cars also hurt the poor by being a a expensive needed expense. Contrary to popular belief public transit is far cheaper than private automobiles.
I think we know Texas is big.
you don't travel across the state on a daily basis. You go to work, to the store and home.
As mentioned here previously, US has bad urban planning.
@@puclopuclik4108 have you been to the United States? Also, as the United States and cities were building, the style of transportation was changing.
@stephengoodson9619 Have you been outside of the US?
You'll never see those strictly residential areas anywhere but US. The rest of the world has walkable cities. I have school, store, doctors clinic, hairdresser, work, and fast food within 15 minutes of walk from my home. I don't have a car, because I don't need one.
New York may be an exception, but most American cities have a strict distinction between residental and business areas.
Public transport varies from country to country, and city to city. But US public syste is worse than in developing countries.
I can tell you my mother never had a car, used public transport all her life. I don't have a car. The majority of my friends don't have a car. We just don't need them. I can get anywhere I need on foot or by public transport.
Now tell me how many Americans outside of New York and Boston don't have a car.
In South Africa, we do say Qauter Past xx (10:15), Half past xx (10:30) and Qauter to xx(10:45). The 'quater to' part may be confusing, but it's just the amount of minutes left before the next hour. Like 10:31, it is 29 minutes to 11. Some people just say Past xx, which is just (xx:30).
When someone says Half 10, that’s a little confusing to me. In Australia, at least for me we say Half past 10.
The Aussie rock band AC/DC has a song called "Go Down" and Bon Scott sings "I'll be 'round to see you 'bout..about half past 10". I'm American, and I can definitely infer "half past 10" is an Aussie thing!
It's because the UK girl is young. I was born in the 80s and grew up with imperial measurements. In the middle of the 90s, the E.U. forced the UK to use metric system. So most British people 40+ know both systems
Now think about the pain of the non native English speakers... It's so difficult and confusing
Historically we Indians are more aligned to British English, but again due to IT, computers, softwares etc. we need to know American English too...
If I write "cancelled", Microsoft office would show it as a wrong spelling, and suggest "canceled"
All these years I knew it's alluminium
Now just a few days ago I came to know it's wrong, and it should be alluminum.
Then I Googled it and found alluminum is American 😥😡🧐
It's 'Aluminum'.
If you find yourself in an international situation, particularly with Americans and/or some East Asian people, you can always add the year at the brginning of the date and use YYYY/MM/DD format to avoid confusions
Or just spell out the month lol
Yes. That is the best
@@StrawberryNinjaNibbles Months don't have the same name everywhere
@@FranciscoJxL they do
True, this is probably the system everyone should switch to and start using
The biggest shock for an Italian guy watching this video it's actually to see two people talking and having fun without making ANY gestures with their bodies and their hands!!! These two young ladies are so much composed while talking. 😅😅😅
I like the way Christina smiles
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I'm from a Latin American country and I live in the UK now. There are some things here that are the same as my country like the temperature measuring and the way dates are ordered, but there are others that are actually like the US in terms of pounds instead of kilograms and also the way the hour is read (generally, sometimes it resembles the way it's said in the UK). We use centimetres (inches are generally just used in construction and engineering) and kilometres to measure long distances, not miles (I think neither the US or the UK does). So I always need to google that lol.
Both the US and UK use miles. Moreso in the US.
Which country are you from? Latin America is huge
Christina is really carrying this channel this is basically her channel at this point 😆😂🤣
Fun fact: Half ten means 9:30 in German
In Dutch it does as well!
Same in Russian
I was looking for this comment 👍
In case you didn't know: water freezes on 0 Celsius and boils on 100
At , not on, )) freezes at 0 Celsius and boils at 100 ))
Nobody:
UK: Creates Imperial system, forces colony to use it, switches to metric instead
90 is super hot, 80 is pretty hot too.....as someone who has lived in the south most of their life......bless her heart.
Im in love with Christina she's way too beautiful
Me too, her eyes are so mysterious that anyone would fall in love with her!!!...❤️
Half ten would be 9:30 for me 😄 10:30 doesn't make sense to me at all, because it's the half of the hour to ten - so 9:30
Then it should be called "Half to Ten" lol checkmate bruv
@@sholandosmiguelito6508What you mean, then 10:30 should be half past ten, which it actually is
UK English I guess is popular here. We use celcius, day/month/year, kilogram instead of pound, drive on the left side. Walking, public transportation etc are very common. I can relate myself with the UK style.
Where is here?
It's India
Irish lad here same for us too
We use both kg and lbs lol
Our Public Transportation is quite reliable. 🇫🇷
Hahahaha these tiktok videos had me rolling 😆 was happy to watch more videos of Chewkz! -Christina 🇺🇸
Ahaha very intersting
One of the many things I don’t understand about Europeans measurement is the kilometers and meters for example what is the closest grocery store the closest grocery store is 5 kilometers from you as a American I don’t know how many ( miles ) is that. First of all why are you saying kilometers instead of miles, it will make more sense to say the closest grocery store from you is 3.107 miles instead of saying the closest grocery store from you is 5 kilometers away. So 5 kilometers is 3.107 miles. Another example is meters how big is your apartment? My apartment is 50 meters , so how much is that in square foot? 538.196 square foot so your apartment is 538.196 square foot as a American I be a little bit confused.
Another great video 🙂😘❤🇺🇲
@@cartier2312 it depends if you were in school before 80s then they used the old system, if after 80s then it’s metrics system taught in schools. U.K. is officially metric for things expected for cars & people hight & weight & we use stone for weights last time I check before pandemic I was 14 stone in February 2018. I’m 5.4 is my hight if people want to convert it I let them do it but & U.K. beer pints are in old system but if you’re walking it’s in metric that’s just the U.K. for you. Government got lazy so basically everything above old system but anything else in metric. Rest of the world does wish USA would go metric & im British & I want U.K. to finish going metric. People I usually go with we don’t say it In any system we just say it’s 5 minutes walk or 10 minute walk or it’s up the road or it’s down the road. Im being U.K. specific, other European countries are entirely metrics.
@@cartier2312 " First of all why are you saying kilometers instead of miles ? " LOL The answer for you question is simple, cause the world revolves around the sun and not the USA. Most people don't even know what is a mile, so how do you expect them to tell you the distance using something they don't even know ? Same goes for foot/feet, fahrenheit, pounds etc. For example, I have no idea how long is a foot, a mile or an inch. Than you're the ones that should adapt to the metric system and not the other way around, cause only the US still use the imperial system nowadays.
hahahah these videos from Chewkz are the best ones! You and your squad always doing a great job, Christina. Congrats! X
Christina could you please just stop being gorgeous holy shit broo
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Reamur (°R) for temperature scale 🤣
Thing about public transportation is that it's not fesible in every town and city in the US. UK is tiny compared to the American landmass and even in the UK, there are small towns and villages where you'd have to drive to get anywhere. I think these channels tend to suffer from city-dweller bias.
The Date Order thing actually uses the same logic, but from a slightly different point of view. The UK system says that the smallest unit first, the Day, then the Month, then the Year, right? Well in the US, we think in terms of that there's only 12 months in the year, but between 28 and 31 days per month. So it makes as much logical sense to use the month first then the day, which would get you 10.24.2022 as today's date, rather than 24.10.2022. See how the American logic works with the 10.24.22 nomenclature? That first number never goes above 12, while the second number can go up to 31.
That literally makes no damn sense it is stupid and pointless to argue about it either side
In defense of the poster above, the manner in which dates are written in English can be arbitrary. You will see nearly every order, except for maybe YYYY, DD, MM scattered around the English speaking world. The "American" order or MM, DD, YYYY or YY is originally from England. That is how it started out with the first printed English works because that is how it was said originally, like, "My birthday was on March 10th, 1989" it was only much later that the Brits started to shift the phrasing to sound a bit more affected. "Yes, I came into the world on the 10th of March, back in the year of our lord, 1989." However, if you look at many British newspapers, you will still see the letterhead listing the print date as MM, DD, YYYY. American's simply did not change and continue to write the sequence the same way they say it in normal speech. In most ways, the "American" way of saying it is the unchanged or the older original version and others have changed the way they say or record things. Many hallmarks of British speaking have been added since 1776, like the intrusive R, some vowel shifts, and the like.
it’s funny because she said NY has good public transportation 😂😂😂😂
5:20 before Google exists, I use to calculate Celsius Fahrenheit mentally, so, why change now? 🤣 🤣 🤣
If you say half ten in Hungary (in Hungarian) then everyone would be so at 9:30.
We always say like quarter 10 that would be 9:15, and 3 quarters 10 would be 9:45
Same in Germany
As an American I've never heard "Half Ten", I would have been confused if that meant 9:30 or 10:30 :(
That being said, definitely use quarter past/to/til or half-past all the time (for some reason no one I know uses half til, but we do say any number 30 or under til/to e.g. 20 til 10 = 9:40) Not sure if that is just a West Coast or North West thing though.
9:30 makes more sense. You made it halfway to 10 (looking at that hour)
We Americans sometimes say "Half past 10" though
Til? My African brain goes spinning. Til? Hearing this for the first time.
@@ekinematics it's basically an abbreviation of "until", don't think it actually counts as a real word, just a sloppy regional thing ;)
@@crazycoral42 I know. But I've never heard or used that for time before.
In USA, they play football with hands! I mean whyyyyy?????????
What do I think that US girl sounds New Zealish, and the UK girl doesn't have a strong British accent either.
I hear a lot of people say "a quarter past xx" in the USA, where xx is the hour. A quarter is a quarter of an hour, so 15 minutes.
So a quarter past 10 is 10:15. Military time is easier and I prefer that.
Why drive when you can walk? Well, "time is money" as we say in America. Most people don't have the time to walk wherever they want to go. Figure that it takes about 10 minutes to walk a mile, why do that when you can drive it in less than a minute? But the thing that Europeans in general don't understand about America is about travel is that America is quite large and spread out, therefore a "car culture" developed as early as the 1920s. When tge automobile was invented and started mass production by Henry Ford, people started to get the sense of freedom to go anywhere they wanted at any time they wanted, without having to walk it or wait for scheduled trains or busses that didn't go to the exact place you wanted to go. A car or truck could though. Americans like to go for a drive just to get out or just for the hell of it. Having bigger and wider roads helps as well. European standard road lane widths are 9 ft, while American lane widths are 12 ft, or even more depending on the type of road. This allows the vehicles to be wider and bigger overall. When I examine European vehicles, I notice there is very little gap between the driver and passenger seats. Looks like you're sitting on top of one another. In American made vehicles, there's at least an additional 6 inches between the two seats, if not more. In trucks, it's probably more, as most trucks have a pretty big storage compartment between the seats. I haven't measured it, but I think it's around 12 inches wide.
But back to walking vs driving. Like your American friend said there, in most areas outside a few select cities, public transportation doesn't exist. Or if it does, it's something of a last resort, as they're run down. And I'm talking about busses mostly. No one takes the bus unless they absolutely have to. If anything, most people would take a Taxi or call an Uber now. And still those are cars. And then in small towns, you almost have to have a car. As even having Ubers is not guaranteed. And small b towns in America are as big as cities in Eastern Europe. I see all these settlements shown in Ukraine, and in America, those would barely qualify as neighborhoods in some cases.
You can get in trouble in Germany - half ten is 9:30 not 10:30
half ten is 9.30 for me because of germany time telling...
Christina is speaking from a perspective of a younger person. Anyone in the US that was born before 1980 Grew up with time being expressed in terms like quarter after quarter till etc. it was with the advent of the predominance of digital clocks that this way of thinking about time changed.
aaah interesting!
I feel the same with Australia! We always take a bit longer to catch on so probably from the 90s. I'm 34 and grew up saying 'quarter to' or 'quarter past' but my younger friends don't.
Yeah, true. I'm a 1999 liner and I think "digitally" too. But for a different reason. We actually didn't have a digital clock in the house for quite a few years, until I was maybe 7 or 8. I grew up learning the quarter past, half to etc system at school in Austria too, but it always confused me. I always think like 9:30 or 20:43 etc. Even looking at an analog clock. I always had analog watches with lines or dots for every minute, since I was very young, so I was automatically used to thinking "digitally". Unlike my grandparents, who's watches only have lines for noon, 3, 6 and 9. I could never use a watch like that lol.
I heard a lot of young people nowadays can’t read analog clocks. 😯
2:26 I've heard "half past 10" used in the U.S.
Easy way to remember Celsius to Fahrenheit: Celsius x 2 + 30. Ex: 10*C = 10x2 + 30 = 50*F. Ex: 15*C = 15x2 + 30 = 60*F, etc.
Close enough to be useful (exact formula would be F = C * 1.8 + 32)
To those Americans you say the month should be first,
Me : Happy fckng 4th of July!!!!
Yyyeeeaaahhh eeerrrmmm... How the f**" is the UK Office even the slightest bit dark? Lol
Americans- god 90 degree Fahrenheit is super hot
Indians - 😎😎
"Half Ten" is short for "Half _Past_ 10", there's also "Quarter _To"_ or "Quarter _Past"._
30 years ago you 100% needed a car to get around LA. Since then we've built the fourth most extensive rail network in North America, and due to be the second largest within 10 years. So now it is possible to get around on trains/buses but it is still a vast area so doing that usually take a long time.
im european but half ten is british way and its absolutely doesnt make sense :D when we say half ten its 9:30 bcs thats half an hour before 10.. ten and a half would make sense :D
How can Americans say Gas when it's definitely liquid😂
Most Brits are confused that 9/11 happened in September
4:30 incorrect about LA, they are just like NYC as far as public transit. There was a 30 year period, 1960s to 1990, where they didn't have light rail, but they still had buses and heavy rail at the time. Since 1960, they have a light rail again. I'm from the other side of the state, in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I'm 46 and don't know how to drive because we do have the extensive transit system. LA is like that too, but people who don't use it aren't familiar with it. It's kind of surprising though because if it you watch footage recorded in LA you're likely to see a bus going by.....but yeah, they do have a good transit system down there. :-)
Norwegian time: Half to the next hour, quarter to/past the hour, 1-14 (usually 5 or 10) minutes to/past the closest half hour.
So 9:40 would be "10 past half 10".
Here's the thing with Celcius and Fahrenheit... Celsius is a good and easy way to measure physical states of WATER. That's it. That's what it's for...0° for Freezing, 100° for Boiling. But environmental Temps on Earth do not use most of that range. I mean 100° F is what? 37.7° C? 100° F is pretty hot. In fact anything above 90 is considered pretty toasty. And 90° F is 32.2° C. But 32° F is Freezing. However my point is...we, as living creatures on this planet, do not live in an environment that ordinarily spans the gamut of the freezing and boiling points of water. So Fahrenheit was invented to more accurately describe liveable Temps without having to use decimal places in casual discussion. The difference between a single degree in Fahrenheit is almost unnoticeable to most people. I mean you can, if you really pay attention, but most people couldn't tell the difference between 77 and 78° However, with Celcius, there's quite a bit of difference degrees. But I think there's like 2.8° difference in Fahrenheit from degrees in Celcius. That is quite a noticeable difference. Another point in my argument is like from I said earlier that 37.7° C is 100° F. What do y'all Metric people do with all that other range of numbers? From 38 to 100? Seems like an awful lot of numbers to never be used in everyday "weather conversation."
I did not understand a single point you were trying to make in that big blob of text?
If someone said "Half Ten" in regards to Time, I'd be like "WTF are you talking about?" Seriously...I wouldn't have a clue how to interpret that. When I dictate a time, I say either the [hour] o'clock, quarter after [the hour], quarter till [the hour], or [the hour] thirty. Any other minute range I'd say something near the exact time but using the the previously mentioned nomenclature. For example, 10:20 would be "Ten Twenty," or "Twenty after Ten" and 10:40 would be "Twenty till Eleven." So times before the half jar would use [Minutes after the Hour] and times after the half hour would use [Minutes till the Next Hour].
Yeah I'm an American, but I learned some German in high school. So if you told me half 10, I would be coming over at 9:30.
1:49 - I called my grandma at 3:00 when she said "quarter of 12" for the same reason.
When Britishers left America, the Americans internationally changed everything and made it opposite to what it is in The UK, that's why so many differences
Ahh.. The girl from the US🇺🇲 really got my attention😩😩
Standard clock, anything on the left is too and on the right is past,
Literally me as an Italian living in the USA, but also reverse cultural shock coming back😅 still can get around Fahrenheit and measuring cups (lbs, inches, dates after a while you kinda understand a bit or at least have an idea)
I’ve never hear half past but I feel like I’d get it because we say quarter till or quarter after
Celsius is probably more logical than Fahrenheit with zero being freezing and 100 being boiling but it’s still confusing if you’re not use to it. When I hear a temperature in Celsius I have to roughly convert it in my head.
Well Fahrenheit I wasn’t based on water. 0°F was based on the temperature it would take to like I don’t know some sort of snow solution
The integers between Fahrenheit are closer together compared to centigrade making it more precise
Every 1°C up = 1.8°F up
That's why most of countries use Celsius
That's true but fahrenheit and Celsius are made for different reasons. Fahrenheit was made as a scale proportional to humans an their safety while Celsius is made based on water's states of matter
I prefer year/month/day. Because we don’t quote the time as second:minutes:hour. It goes largest to smallest. Time should match.
nobody knows why USA use Fahrenheit, inches. Because the rest of the world use Celsius and centimeters. (same thing about dates, and distances )
People in northern England usually say half ten, but people in southern England don’t.
American here... About 5 or 6 years ago I switched my dates to yyyy/mm/dd
Mostly because if sorts best as cooker file names.
US and UK: Confusing Month and Date
Chinese: 😶
Interesting, I didn't know that. In German half ten (halb zehn) means 9:30. 😄
I used to get that wrong many times.
Yes. I took German in school in the US. So when I went to the UK I initially had no idea what people were talking about when they said half ten. I thought at first that half ten was 9:30 as in Germany -- and the Netherlands, Denmark etc. It was a couple weeks before I figured out that half ten meant half _past_ ten, the old fashioned way of saying 10:30.
In Germany "halb 10" would be 9:30.
Even the British person says that using the British Gravitational system makes no sense. 8:07
i say the exact minute like 34 past 9 lol,but im british
I am used to celsius but fahrenheit is not that crazy to understand once you get it - the fahrenheit scale is kind of designed around humans anything below 50 = cold; 50 - 70 = meh; 70+ = warm
fahrenheit sucks for learning scientific stuff though freezing point, boiling point, etc. all hard to remember cause the scale was not built around it like celsius is
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I grew up using Celsius and it was difficult to get use to Fahrenheit but now I don't know how Celsius work anymore after finally getting used to Fahrenheit lol
We are being taught British english in school and I've never heard just "half ten". It's either "half past ten" (10:30) or "half to ten" (9:30).
Half past ten & half ten are often used in the UK. Half to ten never is.
In the UK I hear both Fahrenheit and Celsius scale used in weather forecasts and when people talk about the weather. If it’s warm they say “it was 100 degrees in the shade yesterday”, if it’s cold they say “it was minus five yesterday”
in sweden, if we say half ten "halv tio", we would mean 9:30
halb zehn was my first cultural shock after I decided to study Hoch deutsch😅
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It would make these videos a lot better if you plug-in the audio from the actual video you’re showing. It seems like the audio we are hearing is whatever the room’s Mic happens to catch. Very bad quality in that sense.
They didn't go into units for volume, weight and distance/weight because both would sound stupid!
we usually say half past 10, not half 10
The UK and US metric systsems just doesn"t make sense. Celsius, kilograms, liter are pretty easy metrics.And the dates, the yyyy/mm/dd is the best.
A pre digital watch way of saying 10:30 is half past ten.
1:16 well yes, if you've never used Fahrenheit than of course its not going to make any sense to you. Its the same for Celsius though. Whenever I see something in Celsius I have to sit there doing the calculation of multiplying it by 1.8 and then adding 32 to get a sense of what the weather must be like at that Celsius degree. It doesn't just automatically make sense to me either, as if its some kind of biological instinct that Fahrenheit users just ignore lol I also don't think having freezing at 0 and boiling at 100 necessarily provides any real advantage to the system. In fact, if you live in a place where it regularly goes below freezing in temperature, I'd argue starting at a number like 32 as it does with Fahrenheit makes more sense. Because then you don't have to dip into negative numbers as often.
2:49 I've heard things like "half past" "quarter to" in the US a lot too with time. I've just never heard someone say "half ten" or "half 8", that would sound very weird and someone would probably have to ask you do you mean "half past ten?". I doubt anyone would just assume 5 am though like they do in the skit for comedy without asking for clarification first lol.
From US from Massachusett here, I use the half, quarter, ect system for time. However, you need to say half past. The key to the the wording is using the word past or before. For example quater to 4. Or half past 10. If not I would think the same thing as the guy in the video. A lot of younger generation doesn't know this lingo. But I think the verbs I used give more clearity to the description and thats how I learned it.
Yes exactly ! Fellow masshole here lol
Younger generations tend to know it if they had a lot of communication with their grandparents. But the half past, quarter till part is absolutely correct.
@@E-hab this isn’t really an “English” word. It comes from an indigenous American language and in English translates to “large hill place”. A lot of the words and names of towns, states, bodies of water that we use this side of the world come from indigenous languages not European ones.
I’ve lived in the USA West Coast, South, and MidWest and everyone I know knows what half past or quarter past mean. But just saying half would confuse people IMO.
Exactly we germans habe english in school and we lern oxford as a Standard. And we get taufht to say " half past" ect. If someone is lazy and does not say "past" so at this example half ten i would wonder but then assume they mean 9:30
Because when a german says " halb Zehn" that is is what it means like " half an h on the way to 10 o'clock"
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for celsius to Fahrenheit times by 2 and add 30 to be about right
eg
0 celsius *2+30 = 30 Fahrenheit which is about right
Its not us vs uk, its us vs the rest of the world 😂
Well 4:21 also here in India I usually use motor cycle just to get a milk from near by shop lol
You have no idea about the temperature in India. I live in the center part of India and the maximum temperature has gone up to 113 degree Fahrenheit which is 45 degree Celsius.
in Germany， half ten is 9:30😂
If you look at a year calendar you to go to the month first then find the day. Month first, day second.
For those who say "go from smallest to biggest" meaning day first, the US does fewest first, 12 months, 31 days, thousands of years.
Good point
"go from smallest to biggest" as in units. Days
@@haohao229900 We probably think in terms of our calendars because we are busy people who tend to work a lot and constantly need to plan ahead. If you want to know when I’m available I need to know which the month you need me in first. Once I find that month I can look at the days. If you tell me the third of May, I still have to find locate May on my calendar as the FIRST thing. We tend to have calendars on our walls, cell phones, appointment books and so on.
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That's a terrible excuse