From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: 2 Feb 2001 22:02:35 GMT
Date: 2001-02-02T22:02:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <95fapr$1li$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
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Howard W. LUDWIG (howard.w.ludwig@lmco.com) wrote:
: I would expect that a German would tend to capitalize the first letter
: of unit names, because unit names are nouns and all nouns in German
: begin with a capital letter.
This assumption, though plausible, is just one, and another,
leading to the opposite conclusion, is living in a land of
bureaucratic correctness, Germany, will give you NO
permission to even think so :-)
: In German it is totally appropriate to start the unit names with a
: capital letter.
No, no, it is not, at least in a technical context.
You will hear some rather impolite remarks if you do.
Georg Bauhaus
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Thread overview: 24+ 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 [this message]
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
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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2001-01-31 5:51 Wrong SI unit specification Christoph Grein
2001-01-31 9:31 ` dmitry6243
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