Among the pearls of Newspeak, a - and certainly not the biggest - is the use of "hot". Many understand it and use it as if it meant "hot" or "very hot" or "very hot". The problem is that the fact that something was not saying anything about what temperature is boiling, tumultuous past is just that from a liquid to a gas. Hardly the roof of the car will be really hot. And on the other hand, the nitrogen can boil at about 200 degrees below zero.
But this is not true pignuoli would if it were accepted this use of "hot" is not new, nor unusual. Already Vincenzo Monti, in the verses "in the death of Lorenzo Mascheroni" spoke of the "mar the hot Arabian sands."
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