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I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English. English is full of Latin words, transparent, opaque, foreign, those are all words
by trengrj 10y ago
I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English. English is full of Latin words, transparent, opaque, foreign, those are all words of Latin origin.
- gaur 10y ago> I'd argue "per annum" or p.a. isn't a foreign term and just standard English. Did you notice that a fluent English speaker had to ask what "p.a." meant? Do you think that would have happened if it had been written "per year" instead?
- adenadel 10y agoThe same could be argued for any jargon outside of one's own field.
- edoceo 10y agoHow could one tell the OP was fluent?
- Tomte 10y agoAs a counterpoint: I'm not a native English speaker, I do understand "yr" just fine, but it takes me a split second longer to read that abbreviation. Because p.a. is also part of my language.