resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoGiorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricitywww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square42linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: world@quokk.au
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkGiorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricitywww.politico.euresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square42linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: world@quokk.au
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIn my country nobody says Amp, we all say Ampere, an Volta sounds absolutely fine, IDK why it was anglicized?
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoImagine looking for a Philip screwdriver.
minus-squareBuffalox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoHere’s the flipping screwdriver. 🪛 Not that that’s a flat! I said PHILIP not flipping! Thank god it’s Philips with an s. 🙏
minus-squaresmeenz@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 month agoBut what you really wanted was a pozidriv
minus-squareobvs@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoAn even better question is “Why would countries not be allowed to localize standardized words for their own languages?” Would it seriously be a problem if Italy used “volta” and the U.S. used “volt”? Has it been a problem with France using “litre” and Italy and Spain using “litro” and the U.S. using “liter”?
In my country nobody says Amp, we all say Ampere, an Volta sounds absolutely fine, IDK why it was anglicized?
Imagine looking for a Philip screwdriver.
Here’s the flipping screwdriver. 🪛
Not that that’s a flat! I said PHILIP not flipping!
Thank god it’s Philips with an s. 🙏
But what you really wanted was a pozidriv
An even better question is “Why would countries not be allowed to localize standardized words for their own languages?”
Would it seriously be a problem if Italy used “volta” and the U.S. used “volt”?
Has it been a problem with France using “litre” and Italy and Spain using “litro” and the U.S. using “liter”?