Re: Kanji for 'ishi' (stone) can be pronounced 'koku'

On 2006-09-04 18:53:56 -0700, mtfester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx said:

So is a human body temperature. If that's your criterian, then zero degrees for ice, and human body temperature for 100. Then, when
somebody said it's 50 degrees, you'd have a fairly good idea this was
a bit below ideal temperature, but not uncomfortably so.
Yes, this is much better. As an added advantage, people generally carry
their bodies around with them, and if healthy have a pretty accurate
measure of 100 degrees. And the 100 degrees wouldn't be harmful.

That's really not a bad idea at all.
Celsius itself got off to an awkward start. According to Wiki:
In the original scale devised by Anders Celsius the boiling point of water at 1,000 millibars was defined as 0 degrees and the freezing point of water was defined as 100 degrees, exactly the reverse of the modern Celsius scale. It was then reversed to its modern order some time shortly after his death, in part at the instigation of Daniel Ekstrom, the Swedish manufacturer of most of the thermometers used by Celsius.


For zero degrees, they can always pop into a McDonalds for a drink with ice, should it be necessary to recalibrate the lower end of
your scale.

Yes, clearly this is much superior; basing things on everyday
experiences.

I like it.


just about everyone. Perhaps in your world you are dealing with situations of no temperature, or boiling helium. Most of us don't deal with that stuff.

So, you seem to think a good scale is little more than something that
calibrates what one is used to?

A certain gentlemen might suspect that I don't know that the freezing When I look out my window at the thermometer I have hanging outside and I see it's at zero or thereabouts, it's enough information to help me make some accurate enough predictions about likely driving conditions, sweater requirements and so on.

How odd; my mother has the same reaction when she looks out a window and
sees that it's 32 degrees or thereabouts. What wonderful 'symmetry'.

32 is a stupid number. I mean no insult to your mother.

So, zero is an "intelligent" number?

Yes, it is. Perhaps the most intelligent of all.


Now, a one might note that the vast majority of your objections are
little more than you personally weren't raised with them, therefore they
are inferior. How does that line of "thinking" seperate you from (oh,
to pick a purely random example) the Ann Coulter's of the world?

I absolutely grew up in a non-metric world.

So did I.

Pounds, inches, the whole nine yards.
When, as a university student, I got a summer job with a Japanese

I got used to the metric system in high school.

Science class...

We learned it but it flew out of our heads right away. It was before the national conversion to metric.

daily lives yet.) The metric system just made sense to me. Before,

It's a measuring system, nothing more (nor less.)

Right. So?


plain, simple sense. On the other hand, goofiness is ok too, so I guess there is a certain entertainment value in Americans rejecting the metric system because it started with the goddamn French or whatever other reason they have for rejecting it.

Didn't you previously claim the current US measuring system is "really"
metric?

I pointed out that the legal definitions of pound and foot are based on metric units, so someone in there sees its merits or accepts it as an international fait accompli. But clearly the society at large operates in another system. I've noticed that CSI uses metric, but they're scientists.


But I suppose eventually they'll wriggle up on to the beach and grow legs.

I suppose one day people will become intelligent enough to realize that
the fact that they have a personal prejudice does not imply that that
prejudice is 'better'.

Or perhaps you simply like the swamp life...

I'm a commie, pinko tree hugger, I guess.


--
Always be sincere, but never be serious.
Allan Watts

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