Feel free to use centimeters in your own examples, then. But you’re not entitled to demand that US users do so.
She didn’t. Matt said, in reply to lucidfox, “you probably just round to the nearest 1/16ths of an inch”. Since she, in fact, would not round to such an absurd metric she pointed out what she would actually use. It is rather rude to declare or imply lucidfox is exceeding the bounds of what her status permits to correct a false claim about herself.
You would have a point if lucidfox had not written this post (in which a poster’s use of “miles per hour” is cited as one of the offenses), but in that case I wouldn’t have written the grandparent either.
She didn’t. Matt said, in reply to lucidfox, “you probably just round to the nearest 1/16ths of an inch”. Since she, in fact, would not round to such an absurd metric she pointed out what she would actually use. It is rather rude to declare or imply lucidfox is exceeding the bounds of what her status permits to correct a false claim about herself.
You would have a point if lucidfox had not written this post (in which a poster’s use of “miles per hour” is cited as one of the offenses), but in that case I wouldn’t have written the grandparent either.
Context.