I still don’t know if it goes ground floor, second floor or ground floor, first floor, second floor

  • eezeebee@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    The ground floor is still a floor of the building, and it’s the first one you encounter. To me they are interchangeable.

    • NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Alright, fair point. Clearly there are merits to both systems (see other answers). If there’s a floor -1 and a floor 1 I’d expect there to be a floor 0 between them, and I don’t think anyone would propose that floor 0 would have you climb down from street level to reach. That’s why it makes sense to have ground floor at 0 to me.

      It also might help to call them floor 1, floor 2 etc. instead of first floor, second floor, etc… It’s kind of like how the 20th century is the one going 19xx. So the 20th floor being floor 19 isn’t too farfetched.

      What do you mean I’m overthinking this?!