. . . times lower than . . .

[Joel S. Berson]

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 -4šF instead of -2šF) 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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