Where is the first floor?
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It's obvious now that the people in the American camp are quite far ahead in the argument
Here's a clue....it's in the name
Ground Floor
Notice the word floor. That's the clue. It's a floor.
People seem to be confusing elevation with floor.
What us brits should be doing is the following:
Second Floor
Ground First Floor
-1 Basement
forget the zero! This is better as not every building has a basement / underground level. If you lived in a bungalow, you'd have one floor, the ground floor. If you said I have no floors, what are you walking on? air?
It's obvious now that the people in the American camp are quite far ahead in the argument
Here's a clue....it's in the name
Ground Floor
Notice the word floor. That's the clue. It's a floor.
People seem to be confusing elevation with floor.
What us brits should be doing is the following:
Second Floor
Ground First Floor
-1 Basement
forget the zero! This is better as not every building has a basement / underground level. If you lived in a bungalow, you'd have one floor, the ground floor. If you said I have no floors, what are you walking on? air?
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But 'Ground First Floor' just doesnt sound right.
For me the first floor is the first floor. If you have a ground floor then the first floor is the first one after that. If you dont have a ground floor then your first floor comes first so you start on the first floor USA style
ground floor flat vs 1st floor flat.
makes perfect sense it's the ground level of the building, it counts as 0 you add a floor on and it becomes the 1st floor.
it's perfect logic
apart from where I live the elevator has the buttons
4
3
G
the 3rd floor should be the first floor.
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How the hell has this thread lasted this long?
The post counts keep... Going Up?
I thought I had stopped posting in this thread, but what on earth are you talking about?
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3 - appartment
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2
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1
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0 Gets in Lift
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-1 Gets out of lift, enters 3rd floor appartment
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Built against a hill?
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Like a faithful old dog this thread should be taken out back, have a pillow put over its head, and be shot
They're really not.
And your arguments (which are something else entirely) are incoherent and make no logical sense.
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Notice the word ground?
How you missed that out completely. Then tailor your argument to suit.
Just like leaving out the zero and tailor your argument to suit.
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and you missed out the word floor and tailored your argument to suitright back at ya!
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I agree!
this has been my argument right from the start......call it what you want ,but its a floor
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right back at ya!
Ground floor. Then first floor. And so on.
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Why didn't you highlight more of that sentence....at ground level?
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