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Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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”.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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  - dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!
    
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