(December 15, 2022 at 1:31 am)*Deidre* Wrote:(December 14, 2022 at 6:40 pm)emjay Wrote: I've never used Fahrenheit in my life... I don't have the foggiest what anything is in that.
lol!! I like Fahrenheit because it is a better descriptor of how hot the day is. Celsius never describes hot. Cold, yes.
I work with someone who lives in London, and she always says ''straight away,'' whereas Americans typically say ''right away.'' Either thing actually doesn't make sense when you process it...how did these options become the descriptors for ''quickly?''
Nonetheless, I've switched, and now say ''straight away.''
I just prefer zero representing freezing... that makes the most logical sense to me... but that said, I admit our measurement systems of choice aren't always about logic; if they were I'd be a bigger fan of km's and kg's etc rather than miles, stones, and pounds. So I think it's just what you grow up with really... or what you're familiar with (either individually or as a culture), and the rest is just rationalisation after the fact.
As for straight away vs right away, looking at it I'm not sure which of those I say, if either....probably the former, really not sure though.