From: Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann)
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:54:36 +0100 (CET)
Date: 2001-02-12T07:54:36+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.981961035.9180.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A8773E7.4330040F@bellsouth.net>
On 12-Feb-01 The Ludwig Family wrote:
> First, in reply to the comment amount German names of units, if they
> supposedly (as claimed below) do not behave like other nouns and
> always
> begin with a capital letter, then why does the
> Physikalisch-Technische
> Bundesanstalt (the German equivalent of the American National
> Institute
> of Standards and Technology) use the spellings Meter, Kilogramm,
> Sekunde, Ampere, Kelvin, Mol, and so on in the middle of sentences?
...
You and Georg Bauhaus are talking about different "names":
"Kilogramm" is a german noun and has to have an upper case "K". So You
are right (and Dmitry was wrong).
"kg" has to have a lower case "k". So Georg Bauhaus is right.
Wilhelm
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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 ` Wilhelm Spickermann [this message]
2001-02-12 16:41 ` SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...) 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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