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From: sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus)
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Subject: Re: Wrong SI unit specification
Date: 2 Feb 2001 22:02:35 GMT
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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