2001-02-13 It seems the Italian news feels that it must use FFU when communicating in English. In the three excerpts below, Italian and Spanish forms of the same story mention a temperature of 18 degrees (18 gradi/grados) and then for English they use 34 degrees "farenheit". Not only is Fahrenheit spelled wrong, but 18ºC is nowhere near 34ºF. I hope some of you write to the Italian news agency responsible for these reports and complain that you do not understand the units. Especially, some of the Europeans or other non-Americans who understand neither Spanish or Italian and rely on the English version. Yet, when these people read the English version they are hampered by units not used in their world. It needs to be driven in that only a very small portion of English speakers understand FFU, and for the majority who don't, the article loses its meaning. John Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrtümlich glaubt frei zu sein. 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