Thread 214612023

What do Americans say when they are on the 1st floor and go one level down, is that -2? Or 0?

>>214612023 (OP)
we use american system since its the only logical one. we just say the basement or cellar when going down. if its multiple floors below ground its -1, -2, -3 and so on on elevator buttons. a ground floor or zero floor makes no sense. you either are on a floor or you aint, you cant be on floor zero.

>>214612023 (OP)
>a thread died for this

>>214612146
>a ground floor or zero floor makes no sense. you either are on a floor or you aint, you cant be on floor zero.
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floor 0 doesn't mean the floor doesn't exist wut

>>214612165
yeah sorry its no racebait or xitter/reddit screenshot thread

>>214612146
It's a floor at ground level, how does it not make sense?

>>214612146
it's first floor because it's the first floor above the ground

JFs actually think the ground stops being the ground if you put a few walls around it

my country used to be first floor - second floor like US then around 10 years back they started using g - 1 - 2 for some reason its really annoying

>>214612358
Often apartment buildings have the entrance at ground level with access to the elevator, mailboxes, then half a set of stairs leading to the first floor which is at 1/2 floor's height

What would you call this level?

>>214612245
>>214612358
>>214612470
its the first floor you enter, so how is it not the first floor?
how do you count money? the first coin you lay on the table is it coin zero or coin one?

>>214612635
so what floor is the basement? 0? -1?
if it's -1 where is floor 0?

>>214612635
In dutch its verdieping or etage, "deepening" something or adding an extra level
The ground floor is for that reason the natural floor and anything above is an extra level, so level 1, level 2 etc
Scandinavia is really alone in this together with the US and China and middle east, that should make you ponder

>>214612023 (OP)
You're on the ground before you even walk into the building. For there to be a floor, it first needs to be built.

>>214613029
zero is the point of nothingness between -1 and 1. are you living inside the floor between the first floor and the basement? no, you are either on the first floor or the basement/first subfloor.
hope my pic makes it clear.

>>214613279
no house exists at the same level of the street. It's always a but higher

>>214612598
I've never seen this, and I'd call that the architect being stupid for no reason. Nonetheless, in that deliberately awkward edge case, the lobby or foyer would be the ground floor, and the next floor up would be the first floor, just like in a normal building. Is anything done with the half floor on the ground below the lowest apartments, or is that just wasted space?

>>214613343
this is cope and you know it
>1 - 1 = -1
wow norwegian education

>>214613344
What's this?

>>214613344
wat

>>214613482
never ask a norwegian this question

>>214613428
no its mathematicly correct. you cannot have something yet claim its 0. most normies dont understand zero they think its a thing, when its actually the lack of thing. if a house has zero floors then it doesnt exist, if it has a floor then that floor is 1.

>>214613538
No it has a ground floor like every location on earth, then one floor above is the first leveling of the building

>>214613482
a nightmare for heavy rain days. It's going to flood

>>214613642
have you ever heard of a drain?

>>214613682
Those always clog when it rains constantly for at least 12 hours

>>214613726
Bongs are retarded, no point in trying to argue with him

>>214612023 (OP)
We use the british system and in brazil too.

>>214612635
>how do you count money
The way every bank in the world does
If my balance is neither up nor down, I have zero

>>214612023 (OP)
My apartment buildings is like this
>lobby (E)
>basement (-1)
>garage (G)
>floor 1 (1)
>floor 2 (2)
>floor 3 (3)
>etc etc
>floor 10 (A)

The top floor is the attic.

>>214613538
>you cannot have something yet claim its 0
so your houses all have three third floors, got it

>>214613822
Based.

what do britishers say? ground-1?

>>214612023 (OP)
At my cpany the ground floor is called the second floor because people where complaining about having their workplace in the basement.

>>214614352
*At the company I work at

>>214614352
>>214614387
Just do what china does. The basement has street access but it's also under ground level; the first floor has the lobby and little benches outside; and the top floor has a plaza and more adjacent streets for some reason

>>214613726
So build a step up. You're still on the ground floor, same as if you're still standing on the ground even if you climb a mountain.

>>214614818
>So build a step up
that's not the ground anymore

We use both systems using different word with each one (patro for Bri’ish and podlaží for Burgerican)

>>214613869
by zero you mean nothing, this is a pic of a house with zero floors.

>>214612146
Zeroth floor does make sense if you're a /g/tard

>>214615221
you talk of mathematics, but have not yet conceptualized enumeration as a distinct thing from multiplication
behold, a norwegian house with a basement (it has -1 floors)

>>214617100
bodied that freak

>>214612245
there's only so much words