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is for questions about whether or not a particular phrase or sentence is a usual or common way that fluent English speakers might express something.
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Would Americans say: "He sat down 9 feet from me." or "He sat down 3 yards from me."?
Neither!
Objective measurement is a concept expressed particularly well in "the metric system".... er, SI. But most of the communication that we're doing (outside of the sciences and engineering) is g …
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