• XIIIesq@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The sort of person that insists on calling a ton a megagram is probably going to be the same sort of insufferable Jimmy Neutron arsehole that insists on calling salt “sodium chloride”.

    Yes you’re technically correct, but people experience food as salty, no one is going to say “this food is very sodium chloridy!” and it’s the same situation with tons and megagrams