At 10:38 2/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I am in a real world, where we use SI symbols as "m" for meters, "h" for
>
>
>I have a personal experience learning English as my 4th spoken language,
>I will never learn it correctly.  I understand perfectly the shame and
>pain when after posting to the list someone see its own syntax errors as
>"soup" instead "soap" and so on, but 30 or 40 different SI symbols are
>not that difficult to learn and use... :), if not, conventions would not
>make sense anymore, and spanish language people could post at this list
>in their native language... I guess 50% or more would understand, but
>this would not be funny, isn't?
>

Wow Wagner,
To this I have to side with you a bit, but 40 or 50 SI symbols on top of
the 830 000 english words represents an error of 0.006% or while typing one
error every 10000 words! (assuming 60wpm) too over the top on the error
side. But I see your point, we all often "READ" what we want to "read", it
is called intelligence (Something that we are all born with) (My keyboard
is a bit nackered (Another new word for me!)), the ability to see through
and judge what it is supposed to be.
As for the posting language, Spanish , Greek, Italian, German, French,
English or Japanese (And a bit of Russian) I have no problems

Dennis


>Peace.
Isn't that what the UN attempt to force with the use of armaments?


Dennis