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Re: CHAT: silly names

From:Tristan McLeay <zsau@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 21, 2001, 10:01
jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Tristan McLeay sikayal: > >>> 50 F is cold? I think the high today was around 45, and it's actually >>> starting to feel warmer for a change. Almost time to put the heavy coats >>> away and start getting out the light jackets. At least I don't need my four >>> Gjarrda words for increasingly unbearable degrees of "hot" up here. But I >>> could use a few new words for "cold". >> >> During January, it got upto 45° once. On a Sunday when we were having a >> garage sale. God, that was hot. Interestingly enough, it was freezing >> here on sunday. 15°ish. Of course, I'm using celcius... > > > Wimp. If you're using celcius, nothing above 0 is cold. ;-)
No, technically, nothing above 0 is _freezing_. But in Oz, to find snow you have to go to the snowy mountains, and thats hard, frozen ice, and more often fake then not. And how often does it get above 40°C there? ;)
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