Herbert Schulz wrote:
On Oct 16, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
Khaled Hosny wrote:
"Once again people fell into the trap of believing the rules their
language is using are universal."
-- Some wise person writing GNU gettext manual[1]
[1]
http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#Plural-forms
Well, to be fair to Herb, he /was/ referring to SI
("Systeme Internationale") which (of course) his own
country has not adopted, along with Burma and Liberia !
** Phil.
Howdy,
Maybe not the country but certainly the Physicists have. :-)
There were plans but too many people with power were too afraid of backlash.
They tried, without success, to use both systems on highways and, of course,
that didn't work. I still believe people are quick adapters so just change
everything overnight and folks will adapt in short order. Finally, this country
seems to have a paranoia about ``internationalizing'' anything. :-(
Good Luck,
Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
It might be fairer to say that it has been adopted but not
implemented.
I used to work at NIST (National Institute for Standards and
Technology), formerly NBS (National Bureau of Standards) and I asked why
they were still using letterpaper and not A4 as they were meant to? The
answer I was given was that A4 would not fit into the filing cabinets
and there was no budget for new cabinets.
Peter W.
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