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

From: Pooh Bear (rabbitsfriendsandrelations_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:30:51 +0100

Kevin Aylward wrote:

> Ban wrote:
> > 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
>
> Nope.
>
> >and has
> > therefore problems remembering the right spelling? T
>
> Poor spelling is a matter of poor memory, not Dyslexia. Its that simple.

That is why good old-fashioned 'spelling tests' of old that I was used to,
are the best way to ensure correctness in spelling.

Nor 'politically correct' now of course, so we are lumbered with ppl who
spell things wrong - with the possibility of mixing meaning.

Graham