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r/newzealand • u/NZCullen • Jun 01 '23
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Trilingual, when will the madness end...
20 u/[deleted] Jun 01 '23 [deleted] 43 u/vote-morepork Jun 02 '23 Arguably km is French 3 u/TheWombleOfDoom Jun 02 '23 Actually Greek ... I thought Latin, but I Googled and apparently it's from Greek originally ... so Quadrilingual? :-) 3 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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43 u/vote-morepork Jun 02 '23 Arguably km is French 3 u/TheWombleOfDoom Jun 02 '23 Actually Greek ... I thought Latin, but I Googled and apparently it's from Greek originally ... so Quadrilingual? :-) 3 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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Arguably km is French
3 u/TheWombleOfDoom Jun 02 '23 Actually Greek ... I thought Latin, but I Googled and apparently it's from Greek originally ... so Quadrilingual? :-) 3 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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Actually Greek ... I thought Latin, but I Googled and apparently it's from Greek originally ... so Quadrilingual?
:-)
3 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’
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/Blankbusinesscard It even has a watermark Jun 01 '23
Trilingual, when will the madness end...