I don’t think humans can tell the difference anyway if it is less than 1 °C.
I had a friend who was into Ye Olde Englishe stuff (he was a huge Gilbert and Sullivan fiend, among other things). He had the same argument that Fahrenheit is more precise. Well, so too is 18.4 °C. He liked obscure English measurements because he liked obscure English stuff generally. Carleton On 2020-07-27, 21:46, "USMA on behalf of Michael Payne" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: I like the way people in the US says Fahrenheit is more precise, then say it’s going to be in the 80’s today whereas in the rest of the world we say it’s going to be 30 today. I've noticed that in the US weather forecast on TV, the temperature around a city is all over the place (errors in placement of thermometers?) https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wunderground.com%2Fwundermap%3Flat%3D39.03%26lon%3D-77.4%26zoom%3D8%26radar%3D1%26wxstn%3D0&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C3b1bb8f93255403d68e308d832b74962%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637315110078882085&sdata=wd2x7m55N3p6JB1M%2BfIe4cVP%2F%2FvcULs1ZUGw2tsDNkY%3D&reserved=0 whereas in Europe cities 100 km from each other may only be 1°C different https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.meteociel.fr%2Fobservations-meteo%2Ftemperatures.php&data=02%7C01%7Cusma%40lists.colostate.edu%7C3b1bb8f93255403d68e308d832b74962%7Cafb58802ff7a4bb1ab21367ff2ecfc8b%7C0%7C0%7C637315110078887061&sdata=w4hY89HrHK99rbDIrYwXzrOruSI7m50q04beTf1tdG4%3D&reserved=0 When I typed this Toulouse 100 km south of me is 20°C and Valence d’Agen near me is 19°C. Mike Payne On 25 Jul 2020, at 04:07, Edward Schlesinger <[email protected]> wrote: During the winter months sometimes the temperature drops but in the summer months it rises. Google translate is good. Afrikaans comes out of Dutch and the other tribal languages. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 6:07 PM Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> wrote: On Friday, July 24, 2020 9:14:36 AM EDT Martin Vlietstra wrote: > A quick note about my experience in South Africa. Please read it carefully: > > > > Ek het in Suid Afrika groot geword. In Johannesburg, tydens die > wintermaande dal die temperatuur soms tot -5°C maar in die somermaande styg > did tot 35°C. > > > > Did you understand what I wrote? Probably not, but I suspect that most Brits > could pick out three items – "Johannesburg", "-5°C" and "35°C" so they > could hazard a guess what I was writing about. The British are probably as > monolingual as the Americans, but how many Americans would understand > "-5°C" and "35°C"? This is a very good reason to use the International > System of Units. I can also pick out "wintermaande", "temperatuur", and "somermaande". Adding what I know of German, I can understand everything except "tydens" (which I suspect has something to do with tide or time), "dal", "soms", "maar" (which I happen to know from the knappe kapper tonguetwister), and "styg did" (I suspect that "did" does not mean "did"). I am not monolingual, but my second and third native languages are Romance, which doesn't help. German is my fourth, and first non-native, language. Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales. _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma _______________________________________________ USMA mailing list [email protected] https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma
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