At 4:29 -0800 02/05/23, James Wentworth wrote:
>I just found a new symbol for the meter on a German web site (the text is in
>English): http://members.tripod.com/e_friend/circuit/antenna.html
>
>The author used a ' to denote meters (see the "German Quad Antenna" and "40
>Meter Loop Antenna" near the bottom of the page).  This is an interesting
>example of "stealing" an FFU shorthand symbol, as a ' is often used to
>denote feet ("I am 6' tall," for example).  Is this a common practice in
>informal German writing?  If so, is a " used to informally denote
>centimeters or millimeters in such writing?

Absolutely not, neither in German nor in any European language!

No chance they are adopted any time

Louis

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