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Sep 27, 2011
Anthropomorphising Weather Reports
As heard on the radio:
Tomorrow, it's going to try and brighten up.
It's supposed to be ___ (sunny, rainy).
As the skies try to clear ...
We'll start to nudge the clouds out .
We'll try to get a little above freezing.
Temperatures are struggling to reach the freezing mark.
Some rain tomorrow unfortunately.
We may get rid of the warm weather.
Jack Frost is still in a fierce mood.
We'll have to watch that off the coast. It shouldn't be there.
Meteorologists anthropomorphise (attribute human characteristics) to the sky and the temperature; They sound like they are in control when they are anything but; they introduce negativity into our lives with their negative commentary (rain unfortunately).
You would think that a weather report should be harmless and not an attack on our Torah values, but no ...
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