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=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT 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 12:07:40 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!isdnet!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SI and German Language (irrelevant, was: Wrong SI unit ...) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 21:01:34 +0100 (CET) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 982008192 28133 137.194.161.2 (12 Feb 2001 20:03:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:03:12 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <3A88121D.562C4774@lmco.com> X-Sender: 0211750756-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5189 Date: 2001-02-12T21:01:34+01:00 On 12-Feb-01 Howard W. LUDWIG wrote: ... > Items like "kg" are referred to in English as symbols, not as names. > Do German physicists use different terminology? Perhaps we are > getting confused by the physics concept of "name" (for which > "kilogram" qualifies, but not "kg" )versus the Ada concept > of object "names" (or, more properly, identifiers for which both > kilogram and kg could qualify). Isn't overloading of terminology > fun? Yes and I am sure You�ve described at least my confusion correctly. I�ve studied physics but I have to confess that I don�t remember how I used these words before I became a programmer. Wilhelm