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Have you switched to British English?
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DenkiJidousha
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Answering my own question, yes it does say "tyres" not "tires" now. And my tyres are a little under pressure again...
Yeah I am glad about that, really don't like the look of "tires"
I don't like the fact that "Phone" is now called "Call" though... An odd change in my opinion.
Katic1972
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Is this why my sat nav is calling out distances to turns in yards?
Weird hearing that again somehow, although being 56 I am cross metric really. Inches, feet, centimetres, meters. Height is normally on feet and inches but for me distances may still be miles but somehow I’ve got used to metres for sub 1km values. Must of been a nightmare trying to get that pitched correctly for all people, of all ages.
Weird hearing that again somehow, although being 56 I am cross metric really. Inches, feet, centimetres, meters. Height is normally on feet and inches but for me distances may still be miles but somehow I’ve got used to metres for sub 1km values. Must of been a nightmare trying to get that pitched correctly for all people, of all ages.
Nah it's always done that.. Tesla doesn't have a setting for our 'long distances in imperial, short distances in metric', it's one or the other.
As far as I'm aware the sat nav gave distances in feet rather than yards. If it is now using yards then I think that's a change (for the better). Yards and metres can effectively be regarded as the same when estimating short distances so that would be a positive change if we've moved away from feet.
Katic1972
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Wait I may have misspoke. I was sure I got a yards notice last night but today it’s definitely all in feet. Must have been mistaken.
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Mr H
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apart from those that use the word 'like' every 3rd word......it's as i said like , he was like........
SpareHeadOne
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I'm not sure about that, Americans are as just as capable of incoherence as the English. I would forward the hypothesis that the average Dane has a much better command of English than either of them.
Mr H
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pdk42
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I was sat next to a Swedish guy on a plane once who spoke impeccable English. I said “your English is excellent”. He said “yours too”. It took me a few moments to realise that I was being quite patronising to him.
EVer Hopeful
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I spoke with a Dutch guy once - at least he said he was Dutch. Personally I wasn't convinced as his English was so freaking good
As a generalisation, the Dutch are very good at languages. Like one of them told me once "we have to learn English, because who the hell is going to learn Dutch?"
As a generalisation, the Dutch are very good at languages. Like one of them told me once "we have to learn English, because who the hell is going to learn Dutch?"
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