. . . times lower than . . .
Joel S. Berson
Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Sep 5 02:47:29 UTC 2007
At 9/4/2007 04:56 PM, you wrote:
> I can remember being exasperated by some radio announcer's blithely saying
>"It'll be twice as cold tonight (meaning -4F instead of -2F) as last
>night.".....as if cold were a quantifiable substance. But that was years
>ago & many other exasperations have intervened & smothered it!
>AM
As I wrote earlier, cold is a quantifiable
substance -- if one is talking Kelvin.
Joel
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