Slightly pedantic pointless question...

As has been said,
inside = floor
outside = ground
except when talking about buildings when the two meet together for a fairly epic
'Ground floor'
 
SteveOBHave said:
They were merely examples of the incorrect use of the language that irritate me - not direct comparisons. I personally don't see "Don't pick that up off the floor" to be correct if you are outside.

Now if you are standing on the floor of a valley the patch of 'dirt' you're standing on is still the ground IMO. The Floor of the valley is a description for all of the ground making up the bottom of the valley.
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Depends entirely on the context.

"I am standing on the ground in a valley" in reference to the valley. "I am standing on the floor of the Valley" if informing a third party of your location for example. Neither are incorrect. The same as a Forest for example. "I am searching the ground in a forest." or just as correct, "I am searching the Forest Floor"

It is only a convention to refer to the outside as Ground and the inside as Floor , a convention purely based on the context and form of language used. The word Floor comes from an archaic Anglo-Germanic word for Ground and it is only convention that designates the use.

In some cases the use is correct, in others is is not. There is no hard and fast rule is all I am saying.
 
Castiel said:
Depends entirely on the context.

"I am standing on the ground in a valley" in reference to the valley. "I am standing on the floor of the Valley" if informing a third party of your location for example. Neither are incorrect. The same as a Forest for example. "I am searching the ground in a forest." or just as correct, "I am searching the Forest Floor"

It is only a convention to refer to the outside as Ground and the inside as Floor , a convention purely based on the context and form of language used. The word Floor comes from an archaic Anglo-Germanic word for Ground and it is only convention that designates the use.

In some cases the use is correct, in others is is not. There is no hard and fast rule is all I am saying.
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OK I accept that. No argument on that perspective.
 
Floor

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Ground

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SteveOBHave said:
In my mind I don't believe that it is. I find it irritating similar to someone pronouncing performance as preformance or specific as pacific.
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Thats not really making an error in pronunciation, it's more just using the wrong word because it is similar to the one that should have been used. I have never heard anyone make either of the two mistakes you give above.
 
As above, generally I would say that floor is indoor and ground it outside. However thinking on it some more they are interchangable at times. The only time I can think it doesn't really work is when referring to something known as floor, like ocean floor, laminate floor (it is flooring therefore floor not ground.)
 
Ground and floor are two different things. That is why we have two different words to describe them. If they were the same thing we would only need one word.
 
Well in North America they call the "ground" floor the "first floor" and the first floor they call the second floor and so on.

I don't really know why since they are on the ground they don't understand why we call it ground either...even thou it is ground. Meh.
 
SteveOBHave said:
Why? Because I find it irritating that people mispronounce words? Sorry I offended you.
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You didn't offend me, I'm telling you that using floor instead of ground is in no way comparable to saying pacific instead of specific or performance as preformance (never had the latter but had the former on more than one occasion). Reason being using floor in many situations is not incorrect.
 
Gilly said:
You didn't offend me, I'm telling you that using floor instead of ground is in no way comparable to saying pacific instead of specific or performance as preformance (never had the latter but had the former on more than one occasion). Reason being using floor in many situations is not incorrect.
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Translated as in other situations it is?

As for the praformance instead of performance - listen to Xfactor or various other live entertainment shows - you will start to notice it...
 
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