Re: Ping Kevin Aylward - re your "scientific paper"

From: Ban (bansuri_at_web.de)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 08:19:01 GMT

John Woodgate wrote:
>> Does any one remember the complaints I got in writing db instead of
>> Db, or was it DB, like who really cares a ***?
>
> That's a bit different, IMHO. You can write your philosophical stuff
> any way you want. People can choose whether to read and accept it. If
> they find it confusing, well, either they overcome that or they give
> up.
>
> But technical symbols are part of our specialist language, and if they
> are not used correctly, our **language** degenerates into chaos.
> That's much more significant. Obvious examples are '1 mF' - is that 1
> millifarad (yes) or 1 microfarad (no)? - and 1 Pa - is that 1
> pascal(yes) or 1 picoamp (no).
>
> The correct form is lower-case 'd' for 'deci', being a multiplier less
> than 1, and upper case 'B' for 'Bel' because it's derived from the
> name of a person.

Might it be that Kevin is suffering from kind of a Dyslexia and has
therefore problems remembering the right spelling? Thus following to his
attitude against proper use of language. It is a minor problem of around 10%
of all English speaking people, I was told. Even if it is associated with
some brain misfunction, it is *not* an indicator of other malfunction.
Moreless like left-handedness.
My son has a similar problem, but his math skills are impeccable. 

-- 
ciao Ban
Bordighera, Italy