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- From: nariani@utdallas.edu (Sushil Nariani)
- Subject: Re: Sarfatti Forteana
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- References: <1992Dec30.223943.3346@trl.oz.au> <103669@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:12:16 GMT
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- In article <103669@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec30.223943.3346@trl.oz.au>, jbm@hal (Jacques Guy) writes:
- >>If that is indeed the true etymology of "Tsarfat", it would be the only
- >>case I know of (and I'm into comparative linguistics) where a word has
- >>been borrowed backwards.
- >
- >Oh come on. Within physics (ha! hahaha! physics in sci.physics!) there
- >is a very famous example. Ohm (German) became mho (English and ??), the
- >pre-SI unit of conductance.
- >--
- >-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu)
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- This reminds me of the days at IIT(Bombay). There was this prof for
- Basic Circuits, M.S.Kamath, who was an absolute master of phasors
- et al and notorious for "raping" peepuls in exams. He was dubbed
- "Homo" for obvious reasons and his signature was the symbols
- for "Ohm-Mho"
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- Sushil
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