How hard is it to add c or f to the end of a tempreture
How the hell are people supposed to know if you are using celsius or fahrenheit
I just assume people using unreasonable numbers (50 or above for weather for example, or more than 5 when talking about snow) are using American units and everyone else is using normal temperatures.
I don’t read a lot of comments from Liberia or the small islands that also use American units, and so far this approach has worked well for me.
The experiment occurred at a cool -40 degrees.
Kelvin? Oh god! Below absolute 0!!!
Fun fact: there’s no degrees Kelvin since it’s an absolute scale.
Kelvin is an absolute unit.
What do you mean? Thought it started at 0 degrees (absolute 0) and just scaled up?
In short, in formal writing you omit the word degrees because the unit is simply kelvin.
I have been guilty of this but I will change!
From now on, I will be sure to specify that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees fahrenheit and of a circle is 360 degrees celcius.
Context clues
The weather today is nice at 22, but back home it was -10 last week.
I’m in Europe and traveling. How do you figure out the second? If I am American it’s not going to be converted, so that would be F, almost every else would be C.
Context can’t help you in a lot of situations.
22 would rarely be nice in F unless (context clues) we’re in a bad winter but going to a much worse one.
Yeah the first one you can get context from the current weather, but the second is the one that lacks any context without additional conversation. You know what provides the context easier? Saying Celsius of Fahrenheit.
I mean I guess. Someone who switches systems between sentences sounds like a deranged outlier though.
It is incredibly tough to have conversations with Americans who think local means their units yes.
They don’t even realize they do it, it’s 22c where they are, so that’s what they refer to, but back home they use their local units there. Both are local, they aren’t changing anything like a deranged lunatic. They just fuck it up since they never denote units ever.
Simple concept really.
True lol
Where would you be living if 22F is considered nice weather?
That would be 22 Celsius, I even gave you a place for context for that one.
Your example just proved my point. The context for the second one is that the first one is clearly Celsius. Why would you ever change units?
I suppose if this were a conversation about imperial vs metric you’d give me the example of wanting a 50cm board that’s 2 thick and wondering how the reader was supposed to know you you didn’t mean 2 inches
I gave you the example, an American would accidentally switch when talking about the weather back home last week as it would be Fahrenheit in a Celsius county. How does that prove YOUR point lmfao.
Why would an American use two different units in the same conversation
They use Fahrenheit 99% of the time, the only time they would ever use Celsius would be for current local weather when traveling.
Very few people would remember to make the change, and you’re only lying to yourself if you don’t think the vast majority of people would make the mistake. Like it happens all the time when conversing online or IRL already and you want to claim people are smarter than that? Sure buddy…. Why do you think this post exists…? Because it happens lmfao.
Somewhere where it gets to -10F. That’s like the difference between 50F and 80F
100 degrees
Tell me if that’s in fahrenheit or celsius
Hint: it has nothing to do with the weather
Well you haven’t given the context. We can’t guess the context and the units.
If somebody has a fever of 100, F. If you’re cooking, C. If it’s weather, F.
You’re cooking, so boiling water
Didn’t say I was cooking either
There’s other things outside of cooking that are very tempreture cooking like science for example
If I said it was a comfortable 22 degrees, there’s really only one unit I could be referring to.
A chilly -40 in Siberia
Obviously f, that’s the ideal fall temperature.
Fahrenheit!
Kelvin!
“I’m only comfortable at absolute zero.”
“Cold? It’s not cold outside! It’s only getting cold when you can see the helium snow.”
25°C is (according to a british youtuber) hot in england. 25°C is getting out jumpers/hoodies for me in australia.
You’d be more comfortable at -5C?
People who use farenheit are infuriating
I like C because it is 0 at freezing 100 at boiling but I like F because the degrees are smaller units. The only thing that bothers me is when the news says our 90F feels like 110F. The ‘heat index’ or ‘wind chill’ expression of temperature drive me crazy because 90F by definition feels how it feels outside, nobody lives in a climate controlled box.
I assume when talking to Americans that they’re using Fahrenheit. Damn near everyone else uses Celcius.
I assume people are using the superior Celsius.
A lot of people type the way they speak. It would sound ridiculous to include it in a casual conversation with someone you know is using the same standard as you.
I do agree though that a unit should be included when speaking to a broad audience though and I don’t think that would be a very unpopular opinion tbh. I’m a man of science though and I’ve been trained by enough teacher saying “30 what? Bananas?!” that I pretty much always include them be default even when it’s clear.
For Celsius I’m pretty sure I hear people say “C” right after they say the temps
lol maybe in the US
Its a balmy 273° today
Or K. Everybody always forgets K.
I feel that. Me coming from a science background - always use your units. 20 and 20C are not the same thing. Without a unit, a number exists only as a mathematical idea. Even in my own personal notes, I use proper unit notation.
My physics teacher used to get mad at us. “2.63? … 2.63 what?! Slug lengths?!”
Being in Canada when talking with very senior Canadians (from before metric times) or just People from the US, I know they are talking in American Freedom Units when it comes to this. When they say anything high 90s I suspect we aren’t talking about almost boiling water. Pretty much any number above 50 and I’m fairly sure they are still talking in American.
I also know when it comes to 37 in Phoenix in the first weekend of April it’s time to head back north to cooler temperatures of the mid 20s. I also know an American might think I meant Alaska with those numbers for April so it can get a little tricky there but it’s only the weather and not a lab experiment.
Things become more confusing if you are in Antarctica. I wonder how people deal with units there.
Cold, colder, and frostbite
At -40 there is no difference so it stops mattering very much
Always assume Kelvin and see where it goes
Until recent years, there was no reason to be ther since you mostly talked to people near you
But I don’t see how it matters: in normal conversation it’s usually obvious. I work with people in the UK a lot and there’s no impediment to conversations where they complain it’s 35° and I complain it’s 95°. We knots linens summer and we’re talking hot but livable conditions so it’s obvious what units were each using
We knots linens summer
So no confusion around temperature but you find other ways to confuse each other?
