@nina_kali_nina this reminds me of my electronics course in engineering school: "there are two standards for graphical representation of logic gates: the international one, used by France, and the american one, used by everyone else"
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Funny... SI units is the opposite example
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The one i learned was "the best thing about standards is they are all different"
@nina_kali_nina Almost, but you also need to know that the U in USB stands for 'Universal'. Which is why there are eleventy-two different and non-interchangeable kinds.
@Isocat it's as much universal as common knowledge is common, that's all
@nina_kali_nina Common knowledge? Hell, that's all over the place compared to common sense!
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The "New Orthographic Agreement", which should theoretically standardisze the way the several Portuguese languages are written (and spoken to a lesser degree), is drunk giggling at the corner.
The thing has SO many exceptions that it might as well not exist in the first place.
And after decades of it being signed there's exactly ONE country that adopted it, Portugal, with debatable actual effective implementation outside (and even inside, honestly) the Government sector even after at least a decade of being legally mandatory to use it for Government-related things (including schools)...
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@nanianmichaels @nina_kali_nina @luna Como assim, não foi implementado fora de Portugal?
No Brasil nós perdemos a trema em sagüi e o acento em idéia, perdas irreparáveis feitas para o bem comum (e para vender livros brasileiros em toda a lusofonia).
@bkim Oh, informação nova que me dá, a informação que tinha é que só Portugal tinha implementado o Novo Acordo Ortográfico...
Obrigado pelo esclarecimento!
Ironic. Even it's spelling isn't standardi{s|z}ed 
@pjohanneson@mstdn.caProblem: There are n competing standards.
Genius: Let's consolidate these standards into one overarching standard.
[later]
Problem: There are n+1 competing standards.
(I think I first read this in an XKCD [xkcd.com] comic, and I doubt it was original there either.)
@nina_kali_nina for added fun and games, the standardization of the spelling "standardise" for "standardize" in British English is also not .. standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling
@nina_kali_nina but also note "Oxford spelling is not necessarily followed by the staff of the University of Oxford. The university's style guide, last updated in 2016, recommended the use of -ise for internal use" >headdesk<
@nina_kali_nina double standards, I s2g
The good thing about standards is that there are so many that each can have his or her own ;)
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You won't believe it, but in German and French it's another two totally different words.
@jnfingerle @nina_kali_nina I don't know for German, but in French it's "standardisation"
@Ash_Crow
Have you tried pronouncing it?
@nina_kali_nina Hang on, I'm pretty sure that's backwards. iir, the original root of all these words used a 'z' from the greek zeta or whatever, and it was some american revisionist who tried to get everyone to use 's' instead. 
@developing_agent that’s just one of the ways we Americans pranked the British into looking silly.
@nina_kali_nina colonialism made the standards, facts (let's see who wins the colonial race on earth)
@nina_kali_nina language itself lacks standardization
@Li rather, it has multiple local standards, and that's not a bad thing!
@nina_kali_nina yeah breaking standards is good sometimes. keeping to standards *can be* limiting at times.
@nina_kali_nina how comes s13n isn't a thing?
@nina_kali_nina @LoganFive I will invent a third spelling to be the new standard
@shawnbrown@mstdn.social@nina_kali_nina I've been waiting to use this GIF.
/edited to fix image's ALT text.
@dirkblank@nrw.socialAnd so we all live our standardized lives in our standardized bubble. Financed with standardized money.
People who don't give a shit about standards have the most power and earn the most standardized money.
They then live a non-standardized life of luxury.
Celebrated by standardized masses who are lulled by standardized mass media.
And everything is standardized-process-optimized and ISO 9001 certified
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@nina_kali_nina This is why on language I've just mostly gave up and adopted en-US. Sometimes I'll slip up and shove a 'u' in color.
@nina_kali_nina @babadie You mean standardisation? (as we say in French)
@nina_kali_nina As the #Votemaster once wrote (under his real name), the good thing about standards is that there are so many of them.
@nina_kali_nina Nah - it says nothing about standardiSation, but says a lot about Umerikanz.