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It's very annoying when reading books or watching movies in English.

"A 5-feet tall monster ...". As a reader I have no idea if that's big or small.

But… You kind of know basically how long an average literal foot is, right? Within an order of magnitude at least, and surely a lot more precisely and usefully than that. A 5-foot monster will be a few times bigger than a house cat, a few times smaller than a camel. Approximately.

How long is a literal meter? However long whoever says, by definition.

Crashing satellites because one party did.'t git the conversion right?

It's annoying since you are culturally dominant and we read and watch a lot of your output. We're not mad, but aware that it could be so much better.

Get over yourself.

No one's mad.

It's just mildly amusing in a tragic way, like a slow motion train-wreck.