Centigrade/Celcius 233

[malumbu]

Couldn't give a rat's bottom about the row over Dahl books being edited (the Norwegian/British author not lentil recipe's) but as for Fareheit, consign it to the 1940s and the Daily Express please.

So I'd love the Ray Bradbury book about a dystopian future (Fahrenheit 451) to be re-titled and the two films it spawned. The one thing I particularly liked about "The Martian" is that Hollywood at caught up with the modern world and moved to metric units, unlike I expect sci fi before it which was stuck in the world of ounces per quart of something ridiculous like that.

Do humour this sad person!

[Spartacus]

Don't be a clot Mal

"Fahrenheit 451" sounds so much better then the literally translated "232.778 degrees celsius"

Do you work in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth altering history to fit the current narrative and trying to implement newspeak guidelines fulfilling the ideological requirements of Ingsoc?

Thank the stars that Oceania isn't at war with Eurasia: although Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it follows that any past or future agreement with Putin was impossible. 🤔

[Jules-and-Boo]

It's incredibly disheartening that people's outrage is so misdirected that that the gender in books is offensive.

There is so much more to be outraged about, things that actually make a difference to people living or dying.

[malumbu]

Clot? What a wonderful word. Sort of thing teachers would call us at junior school, nit being another one. My fave was caudice translated as 'blockhead' that no doubt many of us came across when studying Latin for a year in our early teens - the modern Cambridge syllabus Don't think I've spelled it correctly, and never been called a Blockhead (but enjoyed the band). Anyway taking clot as a backhanded compliment.

In deed Jules, ironic as Fahrenheit 451 was all about censorship and the burning of books. There could be two piles of Dahl books in flames, one for the 'traditionalists' and one for the 'progressives'.

Maybe Kelvin 506 would be an alternative title

[ianr]

> Maybe Kelvin 506 would be an alternative title

You've got a good set of potential easily-remembered passwords or components there. Don't forget Réaumur either.

I've just discovered that it's not so easy to represent recurring decimal fractions, using the conventional spot(s) above the delimiting digit(s), in HTML or bbcode. The vinculum seems to have been adopted as an alternative. But I think I'll stick with something like 232.777... Celsius.

PS And with an approximation like yours, in almost all contexts. I can imagine someone including a recurring fraction in a title if they had good reason for doing so, but don't think I've ever seen one.

[Nigello]

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It's incredibly disheartening that people's outrage is so misdirected that that the gender in books is offensive.

There is so much more to be outraged about, things that actually make a difference to people living or dying.

 

People can hold several different outrages at any one time. Dahl’s family acquiesced to Netflix’s requests (demands) for sanitised/de-fanged/bowdlerised/censored content so as to be able to sign a lucrative contract with it.

I’m all for historical accuracies and not for airbrushing a la Soviet politburo to save a few (billion) bob.