• jbrains@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Sure.

    If you had more of an intuition for metric units, then it wouldn’t occur to you to think of “4 feet” as something to optimize for. It means nothing. It’s an entirely arbitrary preference. You’d just think “a metre and a half” and you wouldn’t have to grope for “syllables” as a rationalization for it.