Except it’s not. It’s simply a completely different and unrelated unit of measurement, which was dubbed colloquially in the west “Chinese inch”. Calling it a “Cinese knockoff inch” is like calling the yard a “US knockoff meter”.
Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 days agoI had a client who wound up with one of those not realizing what it was, which caused him no end of problems until I ultimately figured it out confiscated it from him. He got a regular US inch one in exchange. I had to look it up at the time, too, because the notion of there being a Chinese knockoff inch that’s subtly inaccurate is one of those things that just seems so ridiculous on its face that it simply can’t be true, right? Except it totally is.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yes, calling the yard a knockoff of the meter would be kind of funny, especially since it predates it by about a thousand years. And calling the cun a knockoff of the inch is similar, since it predates that by another thousand years.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!
Decq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
An Inch meant something different for most countries not too long ago. If the Chinese inch is a knockoff, then so is the US inch. Only the UK inch is the one truly inch!