Disputatio:Shawn Johnson
Latest comment: abhinc 15 annos by Andrew Dalby in topic Gymnasta aut gymnastica?
Typography for decimals recensere
The scores in gymnastics are decimal numerals with thousandths, not large numbers with digit grouping. Therefore a space should not be used. I believe that when scores are posted in competition a period (.) is used, but in keeping with Latin Wikipedia style I used comments instead. --Jchthys 01:33, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- Sorry, I didn't know. Vicipaedia really should use decimal points not commas, rather than accept both, as is presently done since it is confusing. --Rafaelgarcia 01:52, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- This issue has probably been discussed in Taberna or elsewhere in Vicipaedia. ¶ De: "Don't change the commas in the scores to spaces. They are in fact decimal numerals (thousandths), not thousands." Over here in America, the commas require them be read as thousands: 15,792 is obviously fifteen thousand seven hundred ninety-two. In contrast, decimal points were used by the clocks at the Chinese Olympics, weren't they? IacobusAmor 02:53, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- It's discussed in the Disputatio Vicipaediae:De orthographia, possibly also elsewhere. We were discussing which standard to adopt. At the time, I didn't care which one would be adopted. As many people voted for commas as for points. So we couldn't decide. Aftewards, I forget who pointed out that programming languages all use decimal points rather than commas. Over time that convinced me we should go with points.--Rafaelgarcia 03:05, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- For the record: the Chinese, English, Italian, Polish, Spanish, and Vietnamese articles on this subject use the decimal point; only the Portuguese article uses the comma. (Articles on this subject in other languages don't use pertinent numbers.) Clearly the decimal point, not the decimal comma, is the world's preferred style here. IacobusAmor 13:26, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- It's discussed in the Disputatio Vicipaediae:De orthographia, possibly also elsewhere. We were discussing which standard to adopt. At the time, I didn't care which one would be adopted. As many people voted for commas as for points. So we couldn't decide. Aftewards, I forget who pointed out that programming languages all use decimal points rather than commas. Over time that convinced me we should go with points.--Rafaelgarcia 03:05, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- This issue has probably been discussed in Taberna or elsewhere in Vicipaedia. ¶ De: "Don't change the commas in the scores to spaces. They are in fact decimal numerals (thousandths), not thousands." Over here in America, the commas require them be read as thousands: 15,792 is obviously fifteen thousand seven hundred ninety-two. In contrast, decimal points were used by the clocks at the Chinese Olympics, weren't they? IacobusAmor 02:53, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
Gymnasta aut gymnastica? recensere
Pro William Whitaker's Words, gymnastica, non gymnasta, verbum pro anglicum gymnast est. Ubi reperis gymnasta? --Jchthys 21:59, 8 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)
- Cui loqueris nescio :) Gymnasta est forma alternativa verbi gymnastes (id quod tu ipse ab initio scripsisti). Sed alibi (vide Disputatio:Nadia Comaneci) Mucius Tever opinionem dedit gymnasten[/gymnastam] sensum paulisper differentem habere.
- De ea re ego, cum categoriam creavi, verbo "Gymnastici" (pl.) usus sum. Andrew Dalby (disputatio) 10:05, 9 Ianuarii 2009 (UTC)