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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby DollyKim » Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:23 am

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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Vetinari » Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:05 am

Found a lovely free pattern for a dress. - The catch? It needs to be printed on "legal" sized paper... When all I really have access to is A4 and maybe A3... (damn the whole ISO Metric vs tradition mess that is paper sizes in the US)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Iwa_Hoshi » Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:51 pm

This was shared with me on facebook

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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Evelien » Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:52 pm

What's legal paper..?
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Vetinari » Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:39 pm

These both explain the mess better than I could:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size

Legal paper - ever so slightly taller and wider than A4...
US paper system doesn't match that of the rest of the world. So whilst the EU and most of asia has A4, A3 etc. they have legal, letter etc.

A4 etc can scale into itself for easy shrinking of images, printing twice as much on 1 page is easy due to the system of sizing - US sizes no such luck - the ratios are all odd

(boggles the mind to think the whole printing stuff at half scale that I use so often to save paper is near impossible with the US system :/ unless it's all changed since I read up on this?)
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby victoriavictrix » Fri Oct 12, 2012 8:21 pm

Vetinari wrote:These both explain the mess better than I could:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size

Legal paper - ever so slightly taller and wider than A4...
US paper system doesn't match that of the rest of the world. So whilst the EU and most of asia has A4, A3 etc. they have legal, letter etc.

A4 etc can scale into itself for easy shrinking of images, printing twice as much on 1 page is easy due to the system of sizing - US sizes no such luck - the ratios are all odd

(boggles the mind to think the whole printing stuff at half scale that I use so often to save paper is near impossible with the US system :/ unless it's all changed since I read up on this?)


You would more likely see Christian churches turn into Temples of Beelzebub than see the US go from the current system to metric.
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Vetinari » Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:16 pm

victoriavictrix wrote:You would more likely see Christian churches turn into Temples of Beelzebub than see the US go from the current system to metric.


:D That explains it then!

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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby lili » Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:19 pm

I've always thought it was funny when the doll sites give me the option of English, Korean, or China. I don't speak China. :oops:
I've also seen numorous "Corean"s instead of "Korean", is there a reason for that?
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby yarwel » Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:38 pm

lili wrote:I've always thought it was funny when the doll sites give me the option of English, Korean, or China. I don't speak China. :oops:
I've also seen numorous "Corean"s instead of "Korean", is there a reason for that?

I think that is probably because they don't use the English alphabet in Korea so most Koreans probably don't know how English speakers spell the name of their country. Because they don't know the English spelling, they spell it phonetically thus they use a "C"(which is phonetically equal to K) instead of a K.
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Re: For the things that never make any sense! XD

Postby Linteia » Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:29 pm

First eggnog of the season! Only it's not the season yet. XD
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