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(+10*F.....-5*F windchill)

( Now Playing: an episode of "Hornblower")

  the weather, that is the temperature is still om the rise

  I mentioned below an example with using slang.....because what a slang expression means in one language, may mean something completely different in another...and this problem occurs very at a higher rate on the internet....because you have no idea where the person(s) reading the post is from....sometimes it's just the difference in say American english and British English

  I went online in 1996...my daughter had left for college......true only about 70 miles.....but she had access to email...so decided to go online.....dial up connection in those days  

  Didn't take long for me to find usenet..collection of online "bulletin boards" and among others "rec.sport.golf"....and as an avid golfer in those days......posted regularly.....Now it is true that most of the posters were from North America......but we had several from Great Britain, Australia And New Zealand 

  A guy from the U.S.of A. posted if anyone knew where he could find a "shag bag"(link).....shag meaning to gather or pick up.......but it means something completely different in British slang....remember the movie "The Spy who Shagged Me".......The Brits et al, well you can imagine their responses....well the moderator wasn't there at the time.so I stepped in and refereed before it turned into a Flame war" because apparently the original poster didn't have a sense of humor.....I had a bunch of fiends from other parts of the world.....who I messaged with all the time......which had made me aware of the differences in slang.....