Michel PETITJEAN 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
The used of informations is not unknown in the American dialect, but is rather uncommon. For example, the term, informations, is used to indicate accusations of crime made without the involvement of a grand jury. Technical writing tends to avoid the plural derived form, informations. Randal _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
