Re: CHAT: browsers

Tristan scripsit:

> Doesn't alter the fact that they don't use capitals, though. (Actually,
> you'd be lucky to get something like 'km/h' or 'km' in an SMS; the
> things are called 'kay(s)' (spelt 'k') in colloquial speech. /k@lOm@t@/
> is much too long. (Likewise, kilograms tend to be kilos; you'd never ask
> for a kilogram of mince. And if you call that lazy, I understand the
> French still use pounds...).)
Here kilometers are "klicks", at least in the armed forces (the chief
users of kilometers), and kilograms are "kilos", or in drug contexts,
"keys".  Hence Arlo Guthrie's lyric:

                Coming into Los Angeles
                Bringing in a couple of keys
                Don't touch my bags if you please
                Mister Customs Man

> (On a side note, though both l and L are correct for litres, L is the
> normal one used here (even in mL), and has the greater perception of
> 'correctness', but the GNU units program doesn't seem to accept it...
By the rules, only "l" works for liters/litres, because only unit
abbreviations derived from proper names are capitalized.  (The units
themselves are not capitalized, of course:  1 farad = 1 F.)  The trouble
is, of course, that sans serif or typewriter "l" looks much like "1".
Some people use a handwritten "l" (U+2113), even in print.

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John Cowan           http://www.ccil.org/~cowan              cowan@ccil.org
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There
are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language
that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful.
        --_The Hobbit_