first floor - bottom floor?

[Mineral]

Just a little argument I've had too many times in a lot of games with my friends. In my own language we also have a word for bottom floor. The floor above that is the 1st floor.

But some of my friends argue that another term for bottom floor is 1st floor. So when I say 1st floor it's not the floor that they'll be looking at for the contact seen.

SO, what is other people's idea on this? Or are my friends just a bit stupid? (my guess tbh)

[SANGUE-RUIM]

in Brazil:

ground
1st floor
2nd floor
3rd floor
4th floor

just like in the elevators...

and bottom floor is not the 1st floor, your friends are wrong and you are right

[Microwaife]

Youre friends are stupid - i have very good sources on that.
Also 1st floor is the floor above the bottom floor in german aswell, so for me it is the same as for you.

[Mineral]

It's mostly Fisen really... Damnit I knew it!

[Gosu-Rizzle]

Yeah, its the same in Danish so i'we had this problem loads of times too.
Bottom floor = Ground floor, then comes 1, 2, 3 etc

[iSmall]

Fisen is Estonian if i'm correct, so atleast in Baltics we say 1st floor for the ground floor. And that floor above ground floor is 2nd floor. Not like in elavetors

[Rhino]

It depends where you come from: Storey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

British etc call the "bottom floor", the "ground floor" or Floor 0 or G0 etc then the floor above it the first floor etc.

Americans call the "Bottom floor" the 1st floor, the floor above it the 2nd floor etc.

There is no real right or wrong way but ye, can get pretty confusing

[Hulabi]

PR examples:

Russian apartment building has ground floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor etc.

T-building has ground level, 1st floor, 2nd floor etc.

[Rhino]

Hulabi;2073441']PR examples:

Russian apartment building has ground floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor etc.

T-building has ground level, 1st floor, 2nd floor etc.

lol, that isn't even consistent with either the British or American ways

[dysin]

to get around this i've learned to use
ground, or ground plus one...
or top, top minus two...

enemy is top minus 2, second window from left. 2 second call out and it's international

easy directions to count 2 down from top floor and get guns on the window.

[WeeD-KilleR]

Its an nearly american only thing. Europe has the "ground - 1st - 2nd floor" in every nation. It makes sense because it is the neutral floor. Handy if you have underground floors.

[BlackGus]

My dad is an engineer and he said: "this is the right way"

[crazygamelover]

I can imagine this dilemma being turned into a Monty-Python sketch

[DesmoLocke]

Ah I'm pretty sure I'm American and I call it the ground floor. I mean most elevators I've been in have "G" for ground, "B" for basement, "1" for 1st floor, etc.

Rednecks might call it the 1st floor, but I haven't done my research.

Edit: This confusion really comes up in T-buildings. I don't consider the garage area to be a floor considering it's usually the ground on most maps.

[[508th_PIR] Grey]

Whatever the elevator/lift/fahrstuhl/etc. says it is.

[Zeno]

hmm, always call the lowest floor (thats above ground, not basement) for First floor, then second etc.

[Hulabi]

lol, that isn't even consistent with either the British or American ways

That's how it's in Finland at least

It's consistent with the American way, T-building has a ground level because it's not an actual floor, it's outside and under the building. When you go up the stairs (and thus actually enter the building) you get to first floor and then to the second floor.

Russian apartment building has ground floor (can also be called first floor), when you go up the stairs you get to 2nd, 3rd, 4th floors etc.

http://www.learnbritishenglish.co.uk/wp ... Floors.jpg

A basement would be anything that's underground.

[Fir3w411]

Hulabi;2073441']PR examples:

Russian apartment building has ground floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor etc.

T-building has ground level, 1st floor, 2nd floor etc.

This is almost exactly the way I use it.

If the building has no real rooms or anything on the ground floor, then I consider the first elevated floor the first floor and the one below ground floor.

If the building has rooms on the ground floor then I call it both sometimes

And like Rhin said it's mostly all about where you come from.

[PLODDITHANLEY]

I.'ve noticed lots of Americans call ground first floor, I just make things clear I use ground.

But all adds to the PR mumble experience just imagine the fun in NATO operations....

[Cossack]

How its in Latvia and most eastern block countries:
Basement
First floor
Second floor
Third floor

My language does not even have a term "ground floor", and Russian too as I am aware

For me ground floor does not make any sense