From: Karel Thoenissen <thoenissen@hello.nl>
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:39:37 +0100
Date: 2001-02-12T18:28:49+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A882DE9.AFEB549C@hello.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A8773E7.4330040F@bellsouth.net
The Ludwig Family schreef:
> Germany has historically been rather bureaucratic. But the EU as a
> whole seems to be even worse. I have read that the EU was imposing
> the spelling kilometro on the Italians rather than their traditional
> chilometro, which has been used because of the lack of 'k' in the
> Italian alphabet.
Nice urban legend. There is no directorate for these matters in Brussel
(indeed spelled 'Brussel'). You must have spoken with a British Eurosceptic
8-)
--
Groeten, Karel Th�nissen
Hello Technologies develops high-integrity software for complex systems
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-02-12 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-31 12:59 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-02 22:02 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-04 16:30 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-02-10 16:33 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-12 9:43 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-12 5:25 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) The Ludwig Family
2001-02-12 6:54 ` SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...) Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-12 16:41 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-02-12 20:01 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
2001-02-13 15:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 16:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-02-13 22:53 ` Florian Weimer
2001-02-12 15:03 ` Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) Ira D. Baxter
2001-02-12 18:39 ` Karel Thoenissen [this message]
2001-01-31 15:12 ` Wrong SI unit specification Howard W. LUDWIG
2001-01-31 16:03 ` Ian Wild
2001-02-04 16:36 ` Gene Nygaard
2001-01-31 22:25 ` Singlespeeder
2001-01-31 23:16 ` Keith Thompson
2001-02-02 12:54 ` dmitry6243
2001-02-02 16:29 ` Wrong SI unit specification (non-Ada relevant) Robert Dewar
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