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Re: Why not accept the term "voltage" ?



I have difficulty questioning authority as that would mean questioning
myself. Thirteen years in Santa Cruz wasn't long enuff, and I'm lazy.

I suppose your point was the metre bit, as yours is very nearly the
definition in my OED (encyclopedic not English) with out the metres.
Appendix 15 includes the SI units, inter allia.

bc who, I would think all have discovered, is more a prescriptivist, than a
descriptivist, and won't give up voltage or volts either.




John Mallinckrodt wrote:

Bernard Cleyet wrote:

I, evidently mistakenly, thought dictionary editors consulted the users
of technical terms. That I thought was why "we" refer to dictionaries.

Geez, Bernard. I would have thought that, as a Santa Cruz kinda guy
who sports such a spectacular crop of facial growth, you'd wear your
"Question Authority" badge with pride!

;-)

But seriously, I think I made it clear in my first post that I have
no intention of giving up the word "voltage." At the same time, any
"authority" that suggests that voltage must be measured in volts is
simply wrong and. more importantly, probably an unthinking victim of
precisely the malady that prompted this thread. For example, can you
even imagine a dictionary definition like the following:

length n. The measurement of the extent of something
along its greatest dimension, expressed in meters.

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John Mallinckrodt mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm