I think it translates "Kangaroo piss"
Arbitrary? How so?
I always felt Celsius made a lot more sense than anything else. Set the 0 to when water freezes, and make boiling (at sea level anyway) a nice round number that makes sense. Hey, why not 100?!
Because anything after the decimal point doesn't exist?This is, by definition, arbitrary. 1000 would have made more sense. Better granularity.
Celsius doesn't seem arbitrary to me at all. It's based on physical facts of the world around, which are repeatable. Hundreds of years ago I bet everyone had a slightly different take on what constitutes a precise barleycorn count or how much land an ox could plow in a single day. I think we can agree on that being one arbitrary acre.![]()
What's an American degree? Do you mean Farenheit? Or is America trying to hijack 'Farenheit' and replace it with 'American' just like they're trying to hijack 'English' and replace that with 'American'?
True story, my cousin (9) was telling me that he speaks American (he lives in Michigan). I told him that I was speaking English, and he legit didn't understand how it we could understand each other.
FWIW, -14C (6.8F) today here. With the wind chill -22C (-7.6F).
Negative 17 freedom degrees this morning. Had to bring the pyrenees from the barn into the house. They went straight through the house and out the back door.
We are not hijacking the English language, we are taking it. For the same reason we don't adopt the Metric system -
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Might makes right, and our use of the English language is now the proper use of the English language.