On 13 Jun 2011 at 23:00, Zefram wrote: > Recently there's been some fuss about defining a similar time unit > for use in other sciences, and the IUPAC (chemists) and IUGS > (geologists) have jointly defined a unit called "annus" defined as > 31556925.445 s.
That seems a little too close to "anus"... it might encourage people to get anal about it! You've actually got similar confusion in Spanish, where if you lazily type a sentence like "Tengo 17 años" without using the non-ASCII special character, and write "Tengo 17 anos" instead, you're actually saying you have 17 anuses (and the sentence actually gets translated that way if you feed it into an automated translator; that's a common problem when trying to translate messages from Spanish-language web forums). -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ _______________________________________________ LEAPSECS mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/leapsecs
