Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

All things faradayan: Faraday's, Faraday, faradic, faradaic, and farad

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The adjective faradayan relates to Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the English bookbinder, chemist and physicist who advanced the fields of e...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

From local to global: Hubbert's Peak versus Peak Oil

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The term Peak Oil is now used to refer to the point ( Oil Peak would be more appropriate, but sounds greasy) at which the maximum of globa...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

With prefix nar and no ending in e: narwhal

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The prefix nar in the name narwhal has its origin in the Old Norse word nár , which means corpse . The plural form is narwhals [1]. ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

A limit on long last names—somehow

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Longer last names take more space than shorter ones. If a last name gets too long, it may not fit on a name tag or into a fill-out form anym...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Naming a flu: from 'swine flu' to '2009 H1N1 flu'

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In April 2009 , a flu outbreak in Mexico City, spreading into other areas and countries, made headlines. In the beginning, this flu was gene...
Friday, April 10, 2009

The adjectives alternate and alternative

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The adjectives alternate and alternative may look and sound similar, but have different meanings: alternate : occurring in a successive o...

Ph vs. pH

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Upper and lower case is often critical. In chemistry, the symbol Ph is frequently used to represent a phenyl group, whereas pH stands for...
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