Dear FIS Colleagues, For me, information is a typical English collective noun, with no plural in "s", that subtends a number of individuals. These are designated by some modifying phrase, as "a piece" of information. But I slightly disagree with Guy, since I see the distribution not from zero (the empty set), but from the smallest real value of "one bit" of information.
Merci, Michel. It's good to think these things through from time to time. Cheers, Joseph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel PETITJEAN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 3:35 PM Subject: [Fis] information(s) 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
