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FYI, none of this has ever made any sense at all to somebody who didn’t grow up with Fahrenheit. Numbers don’t need to go roughly between 40 and 100, and then o

FYI, none of this has ever made any sense at all to somebody who didn’t grow up with Fahrenheit. Numbers don’t need to go roughly between 40 and 100, and then occasionally 212 and 450. The difference between 20 C and 20.5 C is not generally noticeable. The difference between 20 and 25 really is. You’ll just have to face the fact that you feel comfortable with a really weird system that nobody else can see the point of, but it’s what you’re comfortable with. That’s OK, you’re allowed.

hn993302 7d ago
It's common here to say something like "this week it's in the 70s." In places that use Celsius, "in the 20s" must be too broad, so do they instead say something like "high 20s"?
- defrost 7d ago
  Here in a metric country (Australia) they use words like cold, cool, warm, hot. Otherwise people turn to BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) hour by hour / day by day records and forecasts of temp. and rain with radar cloud coverage - these just use nearest whole Celsius numbers, eg: https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/western-australia/central-wheat-belt/bwa_pt050-northam https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/western-australia/... Almost everything you've conjectured about "how they do it in a metric country" has been wrong; builders don't use a third of a metre, for example, everything is typically in millimetres - 1200, 1600, etc (aka, 1.2 metres, 1.6 metres) along side usages of 1 mm and 5 mm for small tolerances, expansion gaps, etc.
  - hn993302 6d ago
    They don't use a third of a meter because, like you said, you can just use some number of mm or cm that is divisible by 3. We don't use decimal inches because fractions are easy too.
- simonask 7d ago
  Why would you assume that this particular turn of phrase would be common at all? People usually just say the temperature they’ve heard in the weather report, without giving a range. If you say “over 20”, people don’t assume “close to 30”, because then you would have said that.
  - hn993302 6d ago
    Because it's really common here. This week it's in the 90s, which is very hot. The temperature changes day to day, so how do you give the approximate temperature for the week?
    - simonask 5d ago
      You’d just say “over 30” for that kind of temperature, or “almost 40” if it’s at the higher end. I think you’re taking your own unfamiliarity and just assuming that we’re all struggling because you don’t know how to translate what you’re used to, but I promise you nobody who is used to it is finding it inconvenient or difficult to use.

hn993302 7d ago

It's common here to say something like "this week it's in the 70s." In places that use Celsius, "in the 20s" must be too broad, so do they instead say something like "high 20s"?

defrost 7d ago
Here in a metric country (Australia) they use words like cold, cool, warm, hot. Otherwise people turn to BOM (Bureau of Meteorology) hour by hour / day by day records and forecasts of temp. and rain with radar cloud coverage - these just use nearest whole Celsius numbers, eg: https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/western-australia/central-wheat-belt/bwa_pt050-northam https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/western-australia/... Almost everything you've conjectured about "how they do it in a metric country" has been wrong; builders don't use a third of a metre, for example, everything is typically in millimetres - 1200, 1600, etc (aka, 1.2 metres, 1.6 metres) along side usages of 1 mm and 5 mm for small tolerances, expansion gaps, etc.
- hn993302 6d ago
  They don't use a third of a meter because, like you said, you can just use some number of mm or cm that is divisible by 3. We don't use decimal inches because fractions are easy too.
simonask 7d ago
Why would you assume that this particular turn of phrase would be common at all? People usually just say the temperature they’ve heard in the weather report, without giving a range. If you say “over 20”, people don’t assume “close to 30”, because then you would have said that.
- hn993302 6d ago
  Because it's really common here. This week it's in the 90s, which is very hot. The temperature changes day to day, so how do you give the approximate temperature for the week?
  - simonask 5d ago
    You’d just say “over 30” for that kind of temperature, or “almost 40” if it’s at the higher end. I think you’re taking your own unfamiliarity and just assuming that we’re all struggling because you don’t know how to translate what you’re used to, but I promise you nobody who is used to it is finding it inconvenient or difficult to use.