Re: CHAT: Need a word for these!

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 12:39:49 -0500, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:

>Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>> To take a contrived example, if I give you "U", "R" and "I", what do you think
>> of? Well, my engineering trained brains immediately recognises Ohm's Law: U=RI.
>
>
>Wow, I always think of Ohm's law as R=I/V.   To me "URI" suggests
>Uniform Resource Identifier, one of those things beginning http://
>or ftp:// or urn:.  (The ones that don't begin with urn: are
>Uniform Resource Locators, or URLs.)
And I always thought of Ohm's Law as E = IR. It seems that even
mathematical formulas need translation from one language or dialect to
another!

(ObConlang: Tirelhat borrows the words "ohm", "volt", and "watt" for the
names of these units. However, "volt" ends up as "volht" [vOKt] due to
Tirelhat rules of phonotactics -- /l/ and /lh/ are both fricatives in
Tirelhat, and voiced fricatives are not allowed before voiceless stops.)

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