I once had a jaguar that had English, Metric and Wentworth standards.  It 
was a (joy) maintaining it.  I don't hear much about Wentworth these days. 
The Jag was a classic that I restored, 1952 Silverton roadster.  It took 16 
quarts of oil and had 16 inch tires.  Do you know if Wentworth is still 
around?



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Russell McMahon" <apptech@paradise.net.nz>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Units rant


> The footnote "***", while specifically referenced on a number of
> occasions, is to be understood throughout.
>
>> ... a NewZealandish meter ... to be different in size
>
> We have many many thousands of different sizes of meters in NZ - but
> all our metres are the same size :-) (or, are meant to be).
>
>> ... Could it be that you have a BE-centric viewpoint? :)
>
> I'd hope so :-).
> But, more a PV* one, plus a BE** centric keyboard at an obvious (to
> me) level.
> The same does not explain and is not of the same type of variation as
> the transposition of "re" to "er" in words***.
>
> While my daughter could, no doubt, were it not that she was currently
> about 2000 km away from here,  make her text sing with *** umlauts,
> graves, acutes, cedillas, carons, krouzeks, tremas, breves, kahakos
> (macrons), ogoneks, hooks, dagesh****, mappiq, horns, (I can do tildes
> :-)), titlos and more, using the very same keyboard that I am using
> now, such a feat would require of me more education that happens to
> have happened to date. For most purposes my missives are understood at
> a basic level with the accents removed from my characters. [[Do note
> that I'm not seeking to justify this lack of capability - just noting
> it]].  A keyboard and/or software system that allows of ease of
> variation of basic characters by people with semi-fixed (in this area
> at least) brain paths would be a blessing.
>
> Have you ever tried to send messages from a PC which thinks that you
> want to converse in Chinese and is utterly dedicated to ensuring that
> you do so ? :-). When sending emails from Taiwan I have been forced on
> occasion to use Alt-nnn combinations to obtain "English" text or even
> to cutting and pasting letters from other messages. I'm certain that
> there would have been easy ways to convince said PCs that I wanted to
> actually produce the characters shown on the keyboards that I was
> using, but I could not at the time find anyone who could both
> understand my question and answer it.
>
> I'm aware that discussions like this are unlikely to produce
> satisfactory outcomes when dealing with people who are not aware of
> the existence of Aluminium :-).
>
>
>
>
>        Russell
>
>
> * Plain Vanilla
>
> ** There is ONLY British English. All other forms of xE are impostors.
>
> Have you ever herd of eg English French, English German, French
> Spanish etc? :-)
> I imagine that eg "Brazilian Spanish" may be a meaningful concept.
>
> I find it amusing that English is the *** Lingua Franca of the modern
> world. I imagine that the Chinese are working on that.
>
> ***  Any requisite speech marks implied.
>
>
> **** I'm not at all sure whether the plural of Hebrew terms deserves
> an appended s in the current context so I have not used one. In other
> cases where I have added an s it may in fact be superfluous.
>
>
> How do you say "Deja vu" in French?
>
>
> ______________
>
> Useful:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_key
>
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