"utilize significant verticality" time to operationalize that jargon lmao xD
It’s just layers of flat.
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It's flat, vertically.
Must be hot in there. The walls are all 90 degrees.
Wait until you hear about driveways and parkways.
They were in the closet making boulevards and I saw one of the boulevards and then the boulevard looked at me."
ranch house
is just a sprawling set of rooms and does not come with livestock in a big field
Does it come with a creamy, tangy, garlicky sauce that's somehow less satisfying than pure buttermilk?
A fellow buttermilk enjoyer? You are hard to come by
But I absolutely love a good ranch (made with a packet at home, not a premade bottle)
Does it come with dressing at least?
Of course! It gets piped in by a public utility.
I realised i don't know what the term is that corresponds to apartment building, but flat is just apartment right (ESL)? They're usually just one floor in my experience, as opposed to regular houses which are usually two. Makes a lot of sense to me
Block of flats, or "flat block"
Source: bri'ish
flat(n.)
1801, "a story of a house," from Scottish flat "floor or story of a house," from Old English flett "a dwelling, hall; floor, ground," from Proto-Germanic *flatja-, from suffixed form of PIE root *plat- "to spread."
The meaning "floor or part of a floor set up as an apartment" is from 1824. Directly from flat (adj.) come the senses "level ground near water" (late 13c.; late 12c. in place-names); "a flat surface, the flat part of anything" (a sword, etc., late 14c.), and "low shoe" (1834).
Someone please explain the origin story of this meme cat who looks like he was lobotomized.
cat look at cam
photo is take
meme
But why cat missing uppermost portion of cranium?
Low angle and difficulty perceiving the depth of the snout, I suspect. Looks like standard close up lens FOV fuckery.
so there's this lobotomized cat
This is the same people who add a silent u to words like color, or has a stroke while spelling the word 'check'. They say things like bonnet, boot, lorry, lift, innit. I mean, imagine getting into a 'lift' just to descend. There is no saving them now.
Oi! Knock it off bruv!
I'll have you know that the u in colour is very important. It nake the other o sound more like a u. Furthermore, check is a perfectly good word, but you cant pay with it. For that you need a cheque, and you can't pay with those in most places now either. You car would have a bonnet and a boot, but a lorry would only have the former. Decending in a lift is no more unexpected than doing so in an elevator, and it significantly fewer letters too.
Now, having sorted out these minor linguistic quirks, would you care for a nice cup of tea and a chat about the weather?
it always weirded me out how british people talk about the weather, but now i understand that the duality of rain and sunshine is one of the most important concepts in the world, and very representative of our lifes.
How do you explain pavement (sidewalk, the rest of the roads are also usually paved), windshield (windscreen? A window screen has holes in it!), jumper (it's a shirt, why would it be jumping?), etc!
We're gonna be here all day if he has to defend an entire dictionary
If defend it I must, then defend it I shall! Oxford's finest scholars have spent countless hours studying the usage and history of this fine language, and I'll not have these people coming along with their sidewalks and their windshields sullying their fine works! Harumph.
I've got time 🍿
These are mostly code words designed to keep those pesky foreigners confused.
Pavement comes from the latin root "pavire" meaning to tread down. Vehicles drive on the road, a word which may stem from a proto-indo-european root meaning "to ride". If there's one thing we like more than tea, it's tradition, and millennia old words really scratch that itch. Besides, only crabs walk on a sidewalk, or do you lot all shuffle along like you're trying to get through a narrow gap?
Windscreen is, again, perfectly logical when you consider that in the 14th century "screen" referred to a barrier that might be used to block draughts. If it was a good enough word 700 years ago, it's good enough now by Jove!
I must take exception to your description of a jumper being a shirt. A jumper does not open at the front, and so cannot possibly be compared to a shirt, whose defining feature is the opening, typically finished with a placket on each side, unless it's a tee-shirt, but it's too chilly to wear those here, so we don't talk about them. The garment you are referring to is, of course, a cardigan. Both the jumper and the cardigan do share the trait of being a made of a heavier material, or knitted, often by your Granny, out of heavy wool.
This kind of childlike literalism is why the colonial darlings call train drivers “engineers”. Not because they have skill in engineering, but because they operate “engines”.
Sorry i don't like small talk, can we instead talk about English as a language?
As opposed to getting into an elevator to not get elevated? Or having a „roommate“ who doesn’t live in your room?
Elevation can go up or down. Lift is up. It's bloody English mate.
Elevator from Elevation imply going up. It's bloody English mate.
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Also, generally there is no mating.
when I was a child, I was sure all American cars had entirely different kinds of engines than ours, because they ran on gas, while ours used liquid fuel.
Hey, the rest of the English speakers in the world are able to handle proper spelling and don't need a simplified, reduced character count variation of the language to succeed
- Canada
I'm going to steal all your maple syrup, and then we'll see your society crumble! Muhahaha, ahahah, AAHHHAHAHAH.
Wait, did I say that out loud?
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I mean, imagine getting into a ‘lift’ just to descend.
No different than an elevator. Imagine getting into an elevator to decrease your elevation.
Smh, elevat(e)or. That's how they can go both ways, silly.
🌟 The more you know 🌈
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Hey, we stole some of our vocabulary from the French and we're gonna fuqueing use it! Besides, "check" already exists so we use "cheque". Simplified English is ironically complicating the language. But the 'u' in everything is silly
The one that offends me the most is Queue. 4 silent letters in there.
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Were the u's added to piss off the French? That would be very British.
Apartments are famously built on only a single floor.
The part that any one person lives in is flat.
Not necessarily. The most extreme example being the Central Park Tower penthouse which is 3 stories. But in terms of ones that don't cost 250 million, even pretty small ones can have lofts, and there are multi-level ones that don't actually span the entirety of any of the stories they're on and end up being normal sized for a single family.
That is, unless the British "flat" has a different definition from the American "apartment" or, say, the Estonian "korter", which is "one unit in a building containing multiple units of housing"
I started browsing the Wikipedia for Apartment, and came across this
One dwelling with two storeys
The vast majority of apartments are on one level, hence "flat". Some, however, have two storeys joined internally by stairs, just like many houses. One term for this is "maisonette", as above. Some housing in the United Kingdom, both public and private, was designed as scissor section flats. On a grander level, penthouses may have more than one storey to emphasise the idea of space and luxury. Two-storey units in new construction are sometimes referred to as "townhouses" in some countries (though not usually in Britain).
and
Maisonette ... has no strict definition, but the OED suggests "a part of a residential building which is occupied separately, usually on more than one floor and having its own outside entrance." It differs from a flat in having usually more than one floor
So it seems that flat implies one floor, and most exceptions have an alternative name like "penthouse"
It's kind of funny how multiple story apartments are either really big or really small. The waste of space for stairs doesn't make much sense for anything in between.
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