To eliminate the confusion over Celsius and Fahrenheit I would probably say "Tá sé a deich níos lú".
(slightly Bearlachas I know)

To eliminate the confusion over Celsius and Fahrenheit I would say "Tá sé a deich níos lú".
(slightly Béarlachas I know)

Sorry for the double post, I see that the gremlin is alive and well!

Our maths teacher used lúide and móide for minus and plus.
That is the only context I've ever heard those words.



And Wingléacht has that too.


But in the case of temperature when we say "subzero" we always mean below freezing point. As subzero means nothing in Fahrenheit. So I think saying reophointe /pointe reo is correct for that. -6C = sé chéim faoin reophoinnte. Or use "náid".

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I too did Maths (and Chemistry and French....) through Irish. Our teacher also used lúide and móide but for subtract/take away and plus (add).

But when referring to a stand-alone negative figure in both Maths and Science we used míneas. I haven't watched the weather on TV in Irish in a while, but I'd expect to hear míneas used at times and ...faoin reophointe used also.

I've never heard pointe reo used, however more correct it is. Words like reophointe may be artificial, but over time they become used and accepted. Personally, I hate words like doladhroichead (toll bridge) and scáileastát (ghost estate) but I've known and heard the word reophointe for over 40 years now and other versions sound odd to me for that reason.

"Subzero" in Fahrenheit means the same thing as in Celsius, namely a temperature below 0° on the scale. Granted, subzero Fahrenheit temperatures are something you probably have little if any reason to mention in Ireland, but even with global warming they're still something we have need to talk about here in the Upper Midwest.

Subzero in Fahrenheit is insignificant, I should've said.

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I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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Yeah...when you live in colder climes, "subzero" actually means a lot. It's amazing just how much colder temperatures below zero Fahrenheit are than simply "below freezing."

If nothing else, they're terms we hear all the time on TV weathercasts: "windchill of -10" (well, not "we" in central California, but when I was growing up in Eastern Washington, "below zero" Fahrenheit was definitely something we took note of!)

Redwolf

DAS, do the Irish do the same crazy thing as the Brits, namely use Fahrenheit in summer and Celsius in winter so as to always portray their situation as more miserable than it is?

I see what you guys mean now. I'm a bit slow.



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I use Celsius all the time. We changed over from Fahrenheit in the 70s. AFAIK everybody does the same.

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It is recommended that you always wait for three to agree on a translation.
I speak Connemara Irish, and my input will often reflect that.
I will do an mp3 file on request for short translations.
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We don't do that. We always use Celsius. We confine our misery to traffic, the state of the economy, the state of the language, w(b)ankers, corrupt politicians and rain. Otherwise, we're a cheerful bunch!

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