"J. van de Griek" wrote:
>
> CPS means cycles per second. That makes sense and tells you exactly with it is.
>
> Not in German, French, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, Swahili or Afrikaans.
That might not be exactly correct. You'd have to find an old audiophile
who was from one of those countries and see what term was used when we
used cps. Then you have to ask him what it meant to him. There are
many words in all languages that become known and accepted in other
languages.
So while a particular language might have their own words for each of
the individual words in their language, they might also understand the
phrase "cycles per second" to mean exactly that.
What language is the word Kilometer? It is understood in many
countries. The first thing that pops into my head (no pun intended)
when you the "official" terms for both male and female oral sex are not
English words. We have other slang words that are more common, Yet most
people would understand the foreign words.
Now here is where my dyslexia comes in when it comes to spelling. So
just sound it out, I'm sure the following phrase is not spelled
correctly. In Flagrant DeLecto or Inflagrandi. We have English words
to describe that (by the way, that's the way I want to die-in my
eighties with all of my faculties and a 21 year old model on top of me
just like my hero Nelson R. I'd like to be as rich as him too).
But we still also use the foreign term.
>
> > Hertz or HZ means nothing and even if you only use
> > the HZ, all you are saving is one letter.
>
> It's Hz,
(my dyslexia again)
and everyone who knows remotely what they're talking about will
> know what you mean. A Hz is a second to the power of -1.
Everyone? I'll bet that there are many, many people who know that a
stereo with 20 to 20,000Hz is supposed to be very good (these same
people have never heard of the word "flat") but haven't a clue what the
Hz stands for.
>
(US: 60Hz,
> Europe: 50Hz), etc.
But in the spoken word I still hear people refer to it as cycle as in
"sixty cycle". People don't call it Hertz.
Just for the hell of it a checked a very old amp that I have. It states
"60~" So at one time "~" meant cycle.
__________________________________________________________________________
Once again one of my dumber posts has lead to a long thread and now it
even seems it has gotten to the point where people are starting to get
mean about it.
Larry
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