"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 8 October 2014 10:42:30 UTC+1, Dave Cornwell wrote:

I was thinking about this and I don't have as much of a problem as some
others with it. Clearly most of us know what a temperature means and
everyone may "feel" different anyway due to their inbuilt resiliances. For
example what feels chilly to most of us will feel absolutely tropical to
Will ;-) Nevertheless most people don't really appreciate the absolute
temperature as much as what they feel. Often my wife come in and says
things like "it's hot out there" and I will retort with " ..it's only 16C
actually!" etc. Part of the issue is the lack of general understanding
that temperatures are measured in the shade. How often do year hear Sports
commentators coming out with stuff like it's 120 degrees on court etc. So
taking into account that the public forecasts aren't just for weather nuts
like us I think it is useful at certain times. These might be for instance
when there is strong on shore breeze on an early sunny summer's day, or
early in the year , say late March, when there is strong sunshine, little
wind but the actual temperature is only 7C and so on. It has its place ,
"I feel" :-) Dave

I find the "feel" thing pretty annoying; we are being infantilised.
When I hear it I shout at the radio "just tell me the temperature and I'll
tell *you* how I feel, (expletive deleted)". "Cooler" - yes, "feeling
cooler" - no. The humidity and wind speed may well be relevant, of course,
but I don't think I trust them even with that when they can come up with
rubbish like "the wind will take the edge off that temperature" when that
temperature is 10°C. I'd have thought the wind would have added to the edge
rather than take it off. Maybe they'd misplaced their Dictionary of
Idiomatic English Usage. If they're going to make qualitative judgements
they should at least not get them upside down.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

If I had been as articulate as that ,that is exactly what I would have
said,well done that man ! The 'Feel' word came in about 5 years ago and is
now the norm,who the hell decides this things anyway . ?