Hi John: Thanks. At one person 'YOU' agree with me that Systeme International d'Unites must have ONE spellings for *measurement units* in all languages like the SI. Brij Bhushan Vij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: Gene Mechtly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: Metric Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [USMA:21629] Standard English? >Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:59:16 -0500 (CDT) > >On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, kilopascal wrote: > > ... > > There should be one spelling standard for English, > > at least as far as SI is concerned... > >John, > >Hundreds of *words* in Oxford English and Webster English are different >for nearly identical objects. (flat, lift, lorry, petrol, spanner, etc.) > >Why waste our resources seeking standard *spellings* while many words >in SI are not even uniform in all the languages cited by Bill Potts? > >Even complete uniformity of SI symbols is not yet achieved world wide. >Our focus should be on SI symbols rather than on words and spellings? > >Gene. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
