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[-] ShakeThatYam@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

But you can have multiple levels of basement.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

And it's numbered different building to building, sometimes level 1 is nearest to surface, sometimes it's the deepest one.

And if you think that's confusing, I've ridden this one elevator once, it had four buttons arranged in a square: "P", "FSZT", "MFSZT", "1E". Guess what order the floors are in.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Fuggit, I needed the exercise from taking the stairs anyways.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This was a building in Budapest, "P" stands for "pince", as in basement, "FSZT" is "földszint", literally "ground floor", "MFSZT" is "magasföldszint", "high ground floor" meaning mezzanine level, and "1E" is "1. emelet", "first elevation", so that was highest.

The quality of the elevator still made me think of taking the stairs though.

Fun fact, Hungarian is the only language I've heard of that uses Latin letters and also has multi-glyph letters as long as four glyphs, so "sz" is considered one letter like in Polish I think, but "ddzs" is also one letter.

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