From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8cc219d579ff660e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-12 10:30:08 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!news.tele.dk!195.158.233.21!news1.ebone.net!news.ebone.net!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!not-for-mail From: Karel Thoenissen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification (& restore Ada relevance somewhat) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:39:37 +0100 Organization: UUNET-NL (http://www.nl.uu.net) Message-ID: <3A882DE9.AFEB549C@hello.nl> References: <95fapr$1li$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <3A8773E7.4330040F@bellsouth.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 1cust186.tnt15.rtm1.nl.uu.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: porthos.nl.uu.net 982002529 28963 213.116.124.186 (12 Feb 2001 18:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@nl.uu.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Feb 2001 18:28:49 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [nl]C-CCK-MCD (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: nl,de,en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5183 Date: 2001-02-12T18:28:49+00:00 List-Id: 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