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Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out
- danielweber 13y agoThe temperature was ten degrees celsius below zero when the mammoth was found, so the discovery of liquid blood was a shock. That's a very weird way to express temperature. Is it a British-ism?
- rjsw 13y agoSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system
- ars 13y agoHe means, why not just say "minus 10 celsius". Or in print -10c
- rjsw 13y agoThe SI unit is "degree Celsius", the original statement looks perfectly good English to me.
- heidar 13y agoThe SI unit for temperature is kelvin.
- coherentpony 13y agoKelvin and Celsius are the same, modulo a shift.
- teeboy 13y agoLooks fine to me. We use it the same way in India. And both celsius and Kelvin are SI units. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_calculation_incidents http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_ca...
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- hamstergene 13y agoMust be literal translation from Russian, "N degrees above/below zero" and "N degrees of warmth/cold" are common expressions in it.
- CatMtKing 13y agoSeems fine to me. How would you express -10°C?
- danielweber 13y agoTen degrees below zero celsius.
- CatMtKing 13y agoI would argue that the unit of measure is "degrees Celcius" rather than individually degrees or Celcius. So I would agree with either ten-below-zero degrees Celcius (which is a little awkward), minus ten degrees C, or as the author wrote it.
- burke 13y agoNegative (or minus) ten degrees celsius.
- daledavies 13y agoI'm British and read that without thinking anything of it, but I can see where you're coming from - it could mistakenly be read as "plus ten degrees below zero" perhaps.
- threedaymonk 13y ago"Ten below", "ten below zero", and "ten degrees below zero" all seem natural to me (BrE speaker), but I'm not sure about "ten degrees celsius below zero". That strikes me as an attempt to shoehorn units into an ambiguous* idiom. It doesn't work, and "-10C" or "minus ten celsius" would be better, in my opinion. * Both F and C are used in the UK, but I think it's an age divide. I doubt many people under around 40 would use Fahrenheit as their measurement system of choice. I'm 35 and I have no intuitive understanding of Fahrenheit temperatures.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoEwww. Interesting, but weird to think of 10K year old blood. This guy, Semyon Grigoriev, is somewhat obsessed with Mammoths so I take his reports with a grain of salt but it would be difficult to mistranslate 'blood coming out'