xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure
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A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3138/
Except it’s not. It’s simply a completely different and unrelated unit of measurement, which was dubbed colloquially in the west “Chinese inch”. Calling it a “Cinese knockoff inch” is like calling the yard a “US knockoff meter”.
I mean, that’s a valid assessment of the yard as well if you’re looking at it from a comedy perspective.
Yes, calling the yard a knockoff of the meter would be kind of funny, especially since it predates it by about a thousand years. And calling the cun a knockoff of the inch is similar, since it predates that by another thousand years.
Just like how Hydrox are just knockoff Oreos!