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  • Andy Capp 13 Aug: Lost in translation?

    From Quinn C@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 15 12:25:58 2021
    * Ted Nolan <tednolan>:

    https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/08/13

    Did the gnomes at Go Comics translate the Bermuda temp from Centigrade
    but leave the UK temp alone?

    Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...

    Did Reg Smythe work on the Mars Climate Orbiter project?

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  • From Mark Jackson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 15 20:12:25 2021
    On 8/14/2021 1:13 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    In article <fbb059ec-5a3a-4a53-82db-b22e0a610eb8n@googlegroups.com>,
    D.D.Degg <dddegg17@comcast.net> wrote:
    Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
    https://www.gocomics.com/andycapp/2021/08/13

    Did the gnomes at Go Comics translate the Bermuda temp from
    Centigrade but leave the UK temp alone?

    Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible
    Fahrenheit...

    It's reading the same in the UK:
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-30th-july-2021-24634161


    OK, so summer sea at Blackpool is below freezing then.. :-)


    British Imperial units (including degrees Fahrenheit) are in general use
    in Bermuda, whereas England began metrification in the 1960s and now
    generally uses degrees Celsius. While it seems idiosyncratic for a
    newspaper to report world temperatures in the units used in each country
    - as opposed to translating as necessary to report all of them on the
    same scale - I suppose the English press might do this.

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    we're your language"? - unnamed student (Jef Mallett)

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  • From D.D.Degg@21:1/5 to Ted Nolan on Sun Aug 15 19:29:33 2021
    Ted Nolan wrote:
    Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...

    It's reading the same in the UK: >https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-30th-july-2021-24634161
    OK, so summer sea at Blackpool is below freezing then.. :-)
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    Or we can talk of many things in Bermuda...
    "And why the sea is boiling hot —"

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  • From Darryl H@21:1/5 to D.D.Degg on Mon Aug 16 03:53:50 2021
    On Sunday, August 15, 2021 at 9:29:34 PM UTC-5, D.D.Degg wrote:
    Ted Nolan wrote:
    Obviously 78 cannot be Centigrade and 11 is implausible Fahrenheit...

    It's reading the same in the UK: >https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/cartoons/andy-capp/andy-capp-30th-july-2021-24634161
    OK, so summer sea at Blackpool is below freezing then.. :-)
    --
    Or we can talk of many things in Bermuda...
    "And why the sea is boiling hot —"

    I wish the Andy Capp artists (current version) learned about this late 1970's Metric related PSA/TV ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUXutV6Vk6k

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