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Re: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

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Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> wrote on 03 jan 2015 in
comp.lang.javascript: 

> On 4/01/2015 12:57 AM, Evertjan. wrote:
>> Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> wrote on 03 jan 2015 in
>> comp.lang.javascript:
>>
>>>> <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/avoirdupois>
>>>
>>> That page says that in old French avoir du pois means "good of weight"
>>> (whatever that means).
>>
>> Well, "avoir" is the infinitive present of a verb meaning "to have".
>>
>> In French among many languages a certain amount of some general thing,
>> like water, milk, time, mass, weight, salt, is preceded by "of the"
>> [du/de la]. So "Give me of the salt", as "Pass me the salt" would be
>> considered a request for all the salt in the world.
>>
>> So, while all translations stink in the sense of explaining original
>> concept, perhaps translating it as "having weight" would be better,
>> meaning "in weight/mass" as compared to "in volume" or "in value".
>>
>> The key difference between weight and mass only became understandable
>> by the genius who was born on 25 December 1642 in
>> Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, in another system unit that was on 4
>> Januari 1643. 
>>
>> Explaining a different language to a monoglot is nearly impossible, it
>> seems. 
> 
> Yeah, yeah, I speak, as my name might imply, Demotic Greek (as well as 
> Australian English.)
> 
> Writing "good of weight" is confusing because "good" usually means "not 
> bad" whereas "goods" predominantly means "tangible property".

Well, Mr Andreas Pavlos, 
I still have a hang for the Katarevousa, 
and Signetics 2650 Assembler.

> Andrew Poulos

In the mean time, 
perhaps we should confine ourselves to the many dialects of Javascript.


-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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