resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 天前Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricitywww.politico.euexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1104arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1101arrow-down1external-linkGiorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricitywww.politico.euresipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 天前message-square48linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaregravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·10 天前That’s… not going to happen lol
minus-squarePhotonic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·9 天前Why not? The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 天前Not the person you replied to but I imagine the SI will not change the name, and so scientists will not use “volta”, so Italian schools will not want to each “volta”.
minus-squarePhotonic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 天前I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.
That’s… not going to happen lol
Why not?
The headline is misleading. They just want to change the Italian word for volt to Volta, since that was the man’s actual name in his native Italian
Not the person you replied to but I imagine the SI will not change the name, and so scientists will not use “volta”, so Italian schools will not want to each “volta”.
I don’t think there will be much difference, since an Italian teacher would already pronounce volt as volt-a.