XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 10/11/2025 12:36 PM, Stan Brown wrote:   
   > On Fri, 10 Oct 2025 00:40:02 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>   
   >> On 2025/10/10 0:34:47, JJ wrote:   
   >>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 11:48:06 +0100, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025/10/8 9:35:15, Anton Shepelev wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Throw it out from the second or higher floor.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Is that a UK second or a US second?>   
   >>>   
   >>> Wait, what? Aren't both the same?   
   >>   
   >> Not when it comes to floors (storeys)! In British English, the ground   
   >> floor is called the ground floor, and the first floor is upstairs (with   
   >> the second floor, if there is one, above that, and so on); in American   
   >> English, the ground floor is the first floor, upstairs is the second   
   >> floor, and so on.   
   >   
   > In this as in s many things, the US is out of step. In both French   
   > and Spanish classes, we learned translations of floor numbers that   
   > match what the British do.   
   >   
      
   "Where we're going, we don't need floors"   
      
   https://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/misc/elevators/elevators.html   
      
   I like the use of the Asterisk, to indicate exit at grade level.   
      
      Paul   
      
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