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
