On Tue, 06 Dec 2005 18:18:46 -0500, i18n@... <i18n@...> wrote:

> Nicholas -
> Web pages I am building for now on do not use html - they use xhtml and
> css, and the tags you are thinking about are of little if any use - they
> are deprecated...

Do you mean that _,, ^{, and} are deprecated? If so,
how does one specify subs. and sups. using xhtml? Surely, CSS wouldn't do
the actual "displacement", would it? My little HTML Pocket Ref. (J.
Niederst, O'Reilly), © 2002, still considers them OK, but, three years can
be a long time!

>> > And most people who call it "H-two-O" are not chemists or
>> particularly knowledgeable about chemistry; they are just using a
>> trendy slang term
>> > for "water."

>> Indeed. (You remind me of the spoofs about dihydrogen monoxide, btw.)

> Really? when we spoke of the formula for water in chemistry class long
> ago, I could have sworn it was verbalized as "h-two-o". Has that changed?

No; "dihydrogen monoxide" (technically correct, awkwardly long) was a
spoof (worth a look) that played upon the <rant> quite-widespread abysmal
ignorance </rant> about basic chemistry on the part of the general U.S.
public. Clever wording made it seem like a really-dangerous substance; it
can be.

Best,

--
Nicholas Bodley /*|*\ Waltham, Mass. (Not "MA")
Science education in Kansas: The water in
the oceans does not fall off the edges of the
Earth because it is God's will that it not do so.