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…that…that is the correct measurement
I think per hour is already a part of the definition of knot (hence 50 knots not per hour). I think they are just being pedantic.
I’m being accurate. “Knots” is “nautical miles per hour,” as you correctly described.
If we are being really pedantic. Knots is a measure of distance, and the fact that people have been using that wrong for several centuries does not turn a rope tied at one point into a time-changing object.
I believe the current terminology is nautical mile (distance) and knot (speed).
We’ve only been sailing for “several centuries.” How long was it a measure of distance before people started using it wrong?
People have been using knots for a few millennia.
No, it isn’t. A nautical mile is a measurement of distance, a knot is a nautical mile per hour.
The way language works is that people use things and they become correct.
There’s things I hate, too, like “yea” now being a spelling for “yeah”. But it’s useless to fight it.
All you’re doing is being a grammar nazi to someone who at most said the equivalent of “$30 million dollars”, which is technically, thanks to the dollar sign, “thirty million dollars dollars”.
You knew what they meant. I knew what they meant. Everyone knew what they meant. There was absolutely zero ambiguity, so you just come off looking like a prick.
I know what I’m about.
Being a prick is not a reason to be proud.
Possibly not.
But “We know what he meant” when someone demonstrates that they don’t know what they are talking about has proven to be dangerous.
I wouldn’t hire a mechanic who thought cats traveled at miles per MPH. Why should I listen to someone talk about boats who thinks “knots per hour” is a speed?
You don’t have to listen to them, just like you don’t have to be a prick about it.
I think there point is that knots is not a measurement of distance over time so you can’t technically travel in knots per hour.
Ostensibly knots per hour would be acceleration, which makes little sense in context
And knots per hour per hour would be a measure of ever-increasing acceleration, so this is getting out of hand quickly now :)
Oh I agree jerk can get out of hand really quickly. But the real fun comes when we get into snap crackle and pop.
For anyone who is unaware, I leave this here for your viewing pleasure.
A knot is a nautical mile per hour, I’m not sure how you’ve reached the conclusion that’s not distance over time.