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Surely the publication's location and readership are the salient factors, and not the article's topic? Or should the article be in Italian because it is about I
by abuehrle 5y ago
Surely the publication's location and readership are the salient factors, and not the article's topic? Or should the article be in Italian because it is about Italy?
- sevagh 5y ago>Temperature of 48.8C sets new record high in Italy and Europe https://weirditaly.com/2021/08/11/temperature-of-48-8c-sets-new-record-high-in-italy-and-europe/ https://weirditaly.com/2021/08/11/temperature-of-48-8c-sets-... Now there's a readable headline.
- falcolas 5y agoSure, if you're in Italy. TFA is not. Of course, TFA lists the Celsius measurement in the first sentence, but who reads articles these days?
- sevagh 5y ago"120 degrees" is completely meaningless. I pointed out that the title is shit. The first sentence explaining the shit title doesn't make the title less shit, right?
- falcolas 5y agoMeaningless, eh? An American news source puts up the title “Europe’s all-time heat record […] at nearly 120 degrees” What’s unclear about this? All of the context needed to properly interpret “120 degrees” comes right before it. It’s only, as you say, “shit”, if you don’t like that America uses Fahrenheit. Or if you’re looking for a reason to “shit” on American press for using the Fahrenheit scale.
- sevagh 5y agoThe English language is more widespread than Fahrenheit, so that's a weak comparison.