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Subject: Re: Operationalize orthogonality
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:59:22 +0300
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"Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> David Cressey wrote:
> > "x" <x@not-exists.org> wrote in message
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> >> "U-gene" <grigoriev-e@yandex.ru> wrote in message
> >> news:1148989329.212230.40130@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >>>> How you measure lengts in meters ?
> >>> I'm afraid to answer your question ;-).
> >> Don't worry. I don't bite. Maybe others.
> >>
> >>> Do you remenber cork what is both round and square simultaneously?
> >> Yes. I put it in the neck of evry bottle still not empty.
> >
> > OK, I'll bite:
> >
> > How do you measure length in meters?
>
> <SI Bigot>
> I don't as I use metres!
> </SI Bigot>

<dict>
me-tre (mee'tuhr)  n., v. <-tred, -tring>
                  1.  Chiefly Brit. METER.
me-ter [1]  (mee'tuhr)  n.
                  1.  the base SI unit of length, equivalent to
                       39.37 U.S. inches; now defined as 1/299,
                       792, 458 of the distance light travels
                       in a vacuum in one second. Abbr: m.
             [1790-1800; < F mOtre < Gk métron measure]
</dict>

In Novelian: metru/metri.
Don't confound metres with metresse and metre with mettre. :-)

> But I have never seen a lengt (sic) so for them I am not so sure :-).

Why you tell people lies. You've just seen 'lengt'. :-)
See http://bucovina.chem.tue.nl/page_8.htm