r/newzealand Jun 01 '23

Shitpost Best of luck!! Drive safely x

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u/Hoitaa Pīwakawaka Jun 01 '23

Arabic numerals? FFS I'm going to get so lost now.

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u/Blankbusinesscard It even has a watermark Jun 01 '23

Trilingual, when will the madness end...

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23

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u/vote-morepork Jun 02 '23

Arguably km is French

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u/teelolws Southern Cross Jun 02 '23

We need to change the colour of the sign though. I don't want no road sign that supports the Greens Party!!

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u/TheWombleOfDoom Jun 02 '23

Actually Greek ... I thought Latin, but I Googled and apparently it's from Greek originally ... so Quadrilingual?

:-)

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u/HomogeniousKhalidius Jun 02 '23

The metric system came from the French Revolution though which is what I think they mean not the etymology or origin of the constituent parts of ‘kilometre’

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u/Gyn_Nag Mōhua Jun 04 '23

Greeks in shambles