• TwentySeven@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Empirical means based on data. The word you are looking for is imperial.

    Also, metric measurements are in base 10, so you have it backwards.

    • HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      7 months ago

      man’s actually taking the piss at OP’s use of “empirical” instead of “imperial”

      also, i doubt that measurements of data can be imperial or metric; even Bytes themselves are just measurements of 8 bits.

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      7 months ago

      Thank you for majoring in English. We need people like you to ruin the peace in this fragile world.

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        7 months ago

        Many people are learning English as a foreign language through using it on the internet. Lazy native speakers hsing it incorrecrly despite knowing it better makes that very difficult, as they learn mistakes they later have to unlearn.

        I am always glad when people point out such mistakes, for this reason.