[FPSPACE] What's in a name ?????

[John]

Phil,

Maybe in deference to Russian correctness we should also pronounce the designators in Russian. I confess I will have trouble with the numbers but the proper names should be manageable. 

JBC
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Please forgive typos. 

On Apr 22, 2012, at 9:12, "Phillip Clark" <phillipclark at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Probably the reason that the Russians do not comment is that they use the correct names.   And therefore Russian writers always use the correct names.
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> It is only stupid westerners who believe that "if NASA says it's true then it must be true".   
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> Such people are not worth considering seriously.
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> Phillip Clark
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John
> To: Kees van den Berg
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> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 2:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [FPSPACE] What's in a name ?????
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> Kees, I agree with you. Reading these ongoing diatribes defending Russian nomenclature that even the Russians don't defend reminds me of the quote attributed to Henry Kissinger and many others: "The reason that academic politics are so vicious is that the stakes are so small."
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