One of my biggest annoyances with the pervasiveness of usmerican culture is the way that usmericans need too have a special term for every variant of something, especially where that makes no fucking sense.
And then everyone is required to learn their stupid little words in order to communicate in bigger online spaces, since those are usually english and usmericanised, and since usmericans generally refuse to learn other terms and just blab on and expect you to understand and keep up, and so they become the norm in those spaces.
And this is all the more grating because the terms make no sense. Just absolutely irregular random bullshit. Which you then have to learn in order to communicate. Even though they are so goddamn stupid because they were just pulled out of someone's ass and then purified of all logical reason and practicability.
Examples: yarn size terms. Here we just call them by the size of the needle it's for. Why is it fingering, worsted, dk (donkey kong?), aran, laceweight. Those are bullshit random terms and you have to memorise their order too.
Related to that, hook and needle size numbers, instead of just saying the size in millimetres like we do here. But of course you can't do that because then you'd have to learn the fucking metric system instead of bullshitting around with a cobbled together system of absolute stupidity that makes everything harder.
Next point mattress sizes. Here we just call them by their damn measurements. Usmericans invented ludicrous little terms for them. What king and queen, wasn't there a war about that you were oh so proud of. Why is a twin size small. And then they didn't even invent enough shitty terms so now you have an xl twin size. Why is there a seperate king of california? Stupiditous annoying bullshittery.
Next point, yarn again because it's crawling with these: why is it knit and purl. What is a purl. Just stop this for fuck's sake. Here it's left and right stitch. For left and right side of a piece of cloth. "Pick up the stitch knitwise or purlwise". Absolute tomfoolery, just say from the front and back. If i knit stitches from a different side then that term has net zero information.
Crochet terms too, and you have to ascertain if the speaker is british or usmerican on top of that, because they use some of the same terms (all nonsensical and annoying as hell), but the terms mean different things for them. Which is kinda relevant if your piece calls for 30 rows of double crochet.
Actually, that reminds me of the horrendous and stupid cup and spoon measuring system they both got going on. Which is of course also different but has the same terms, just to add to everyone elses suffering.
To be clear, many of these terms were likely british english in origin (I'm no linguist and have no desire to learn any more about either countries than i already do), and while that shifts part of the blame for the grating nonsensical term systems on the english, it does not negate the huge part of how annoying they are to me that's because of the revolting pervasiveness of usmerican culture in wide parts of the world. Your culture is not neutral and i am sick of it.
