Hi Michel, You are correct about the use and concept of information in English. General use of the term "information" refers to a fuzzy concept that is continuously distributed from none to much, so the plural form "informations" feels incorrect. Of course, in scientific discourses the term has been operationally sharpened and discretized into bits.
Cheers, Guy on 12/6/08 6:35 AM, Michel PETITJEAN at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello FISers. > > Recently, one of my colleagues attract my attention on the following point. > In French, we often use information as a countable quantity, > so that we can write "informations". > In English, it seems that it is unusual, if not incorrect, to do that. > (1) Please can some English native FISers give their opinion about that ? > (2) Please can some FISers from non English-speaking countries tell us > how is the situation in their own language ? > > Thank you very much. > > Michel. > > Michel Petitjean, > DSV/iBiTec-S/SB2SM (CNRS URA 2096), CEA Saclay, bat. 528, > 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France. > Phone: +331 6908 4006 / Fax: +331 6908 4007 > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > [email protected] > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
