[libreoffice-l10n] Re: [Math] "Lime" or "Limit"

Hello Tom, *,
On Sonntag, 5. Januar 2014 16:52 Tom Davies wrote:
> Ok, so "Lim" does mean limits but just isn't short for the English
> word "limits".
>
> Also it's a generic term and NOT specifically about 1 type of
> limits, such as either just the upper or just the lower ones.
>
> 2 of us did an internet search for the pedantically correct term =
> "limes" and got stuff about fruit and rocks but nothing about
> Calculus.

I just did the search for a fitting translation for "Lime", what I 
have mentioned in my first mail ... ;) And for it, I found 
translations, which indicates either a fruit or a kind of stone ... 
:( But I was not sure, if it was an missing "s" at the end, a wrong 
word in this context or something else ... :( You could test it 
yourself with inserting "Mathematik Lime Übersetzung" in a search 
engine of your choice ... ;)

> When i did another search and made it clear that
> "limes" was Latin rather than English i got a few hits but nothing
> hugely
> useful.  Searching for "limits" did get a ton of useful results
> that normal users might find useful if they were doing their own
> research
> outside of the LO help guides.  So i am not quite sure about how
> useful it was to be pedantic because it just added confusion when
> we were really just searching for a practical answer but it is
> interesting to find the roots of words, so thanks for that :)

Indeed, it is :)
Have a nice afternoon
Thomas
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