On Feb 8, 2007, at 7:21 AM, David Håsäther wrote:
Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Feb 8, 2007, at 08:37, David Latapie wrote:
> I also agree with Nicholas Shank that single-letter element
shall be
> avoided. We have only 26 possibilities, no more.
None of those 26 possibilities are doing anyone any good if we never
dare to use them.
Agreed. However, I think single-letter names should be used only for
common element types. "P" is a good example IMO, "M" probably less so.
I would be less concerned that it's a single letter than that "m" and
"em" are pronounced identically (in English, and in the other
European languages I can think of offhand) -- which would be
confusing if one were trying to explain them aloud, especially given
how close they are semantically.
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David Walbert
LEARN NC, UNC-Chapel Hill
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