Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don_from_AZ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Soldered connections. Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:39:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <874itkyfkb.fsf@comcast.net.invalid> References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <108hddu$3bl64$2@dont-email.me> <108leod$b9i7$1@dont-email.me> <108mli5$k17h$1@dont-email.me> <108moro$ktk8$1@dont-email.me> <108muat$m6bo$1@dont-email.me> <6P6cndY_yqfjxS31nZ2dnZfqn_SdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1093t2g$3ophr$6@dont-email.me> <1096g3f$djbq$2@dont-email.me> <1096m5n$frbq$1@dont-email.me> <1096una$i22a$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:39:19 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3a335212be4bf77160e43da8f4e17a92"; logging-data="651657"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+4ImEfXyZCJQzzI70aMrHmPF6FiJI9/WA=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KzBS7kmgsYr85Xq2zPnEdCBtfm8= sha1:8G1dzj8loFygbTCHJ1v0JuTCP/Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:73034 alt.comp.os.windows-11:23569 Graham J writes: > Daniel70 wrote: > > [snip] > >> When I walk in from the Street Footpath through the Front Door of a >> House, I'm still (possibly) AT GROUND LEVEL, so I MUST be on THE >> *GROUND* *FLOOR* level, surely!! >> If I then go up a set of stairs, that puts me at the *FIRST* *FLOOR* >> *ABOVE* Ground level, surely!! > > This is indeed the English convention. I suspect the same is true in > France: "premier etage". So probably Europe-wide. > > The Americans can achieve the same result by numbering their ground > floor as zero. But, but... when I walk in to a building at the ground level, the floor I encounter there is surely the "first" floor you get to. So the one above that must be the "second" floor, and so forth. Seems clear to me! -- -Don_from_AZ-