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Interesting backstory about the lost metric influence. The problem I have with Celsius is that it’s so clinical. “Man it was sunny day at 23.1” just doesn’t ro
by elcritch 4y ago
Interesting backstory about the lost metric influence.
The problem I have with Celsius is that it’s so clinical. “Man it was sunny day at 23.1” just doesn’t roll off the tongue like say it’s mid seventies today”.
- mopsi 4y agoNobody uses decimals in these situations, and "it was almost 30 today" isn't that much different. Short and gets the point across.
- perilunar 4y agoWe do the same in Celsius: mid to high twenties is a hot day. Over thirty is very hot. Low teens is cold. Zero is freezing (literally). Nobody every talks about the weather in fractions of a degree.
- elcritch 4y agoThanks, that's a good point. I've only used Celsius in technical situations, so it always felt technical. I wonder if that could be part of why Americans don't tend to dislike metric -- we associate it with technical work. Without a forcing function none of use grow up using it in common daily usage, sort of like how emotional words in second languages tend to not be as impactful. They just never match your first language's import.