If your first floor isn't "first floor", you live in a 3rd world shithole

If your first floor isn't "first floor", you live in a 3rd world shithole.

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So is the building three stories tall or four stories tall?

4, brits are retarded

Agreed.

In english I would gladly say that this building has 4 floors.
In french I would say that it has "3 étages" because "étage" refers to an overlaid stage.

we use the british counting here
it only makes sense to start at 0, you are at 0 altitude from the ground
computers count from 0 too

Then what's the basement called? The negative first floor?

Oh and we call the "ground floor" the "rez-de-chaussée" which means "skimming the pavement"

we have -1 and -2 in some buildings, yes

Are you medically retarded?

>what's the basement called

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>If your first floor isn't "first floor", you live in a 3rd world shithole.

How so?
Treating the first level above the ground level as the 'first proper floor' has a decent historical grounding.

Pic-related is the Italian urban palace. Ground floor was chiefly meant for workshops, kitchens and other rooms suited for menial tasks performed by lower classes. A floor directly above that level is referred to as "Piano nobile" and had been fashioned into the most spacious and luxurious level of them all.

TL;DR: If your ground level is your first floor, your country has no cultural background whatsoever.

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no one cares about your poop-colored building

So the middle point between the ground and the ceiling is 0,5 floor? It makes sense if you see floors as something that admits degrees, as a scale.

A floor is a floor bitch

Really? That's interesting.

no boludo
you climb 1 stair, you reach floor 1, you climb 2 stair, you reach floor two

>Product of Renaissance is regarded by a Burger on the same level as if it were his own culturally enriched ghetto slums

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The British way makes more sense mathematically but...
Ground floor:
>is a floor
>is also the floor that comes first
Why wouldn't you call it the first floor? Counting the British way would only make sense if the ground floor and the floors above didn't share the same term ("floor"), like the french user said here . tl;dr just found out that the French have the best way to deal with it

Yes, I know what you're saying, gilipollas. I just find it flawed because the 0 starting point is a floor already and as such fitting of being considered first floor.

>he doesn't index his arrays at 0
Back to Delphi.

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>13th floor is the 14th floor

British way makes more sense, as it uses the same numbering system for whether you're above or below ground, the default level.

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