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I've never seen "photon" spelled with an F before.
by qntm 15y ago
I've never seen "photon" spelled with an F before.
- themgt 15y agoI think English isn't the author's first language: The authors of the OPERA paper [5] seem to include a correction for the Lorentz transformations, but they not correct for the change in scenario. And because they project back the time of provided by the moving clock to the baseline they seem to incorrectly assume that the outcome of their experiment should be equivalent to that using a clock in the baseline reference system
- eldina 15y agoStill a little odd, as the Dutch are generally considered to be the best non-native speakers of English in Europe.
- mauro_oto 15y agoFoton is spanish for Photon, I guess it's the same way in Dutch. (It is)
- mladenkovacevic 15y agoI'd imagine Photon is spelt Foton in pretty much any phonetic language in the world (or as they would say fonetic lol)
- kachnuv_ocasek 15y agoYou mean fonetik?
- mladenkovacevic 15y agoHaha yes, pardon me.
- nknight 15y agoWhile most of the Dutch people I've heard speak did so with perfectly fluent English (and American accents -- thank you, Hollywood), you're unwittingly assuming he's relatively young -- my understanding is that, not surprisingly, levels of English fluency drop off somewhat rapidly with age in the current Dutch population.
- eldina 15y agoHe got his phd in 2000, so I assumed he was reasonably young :)
- Gmo 15y agoThis comment will probably never be read, but nevertheless ... I am a Frenchman living in the Netherlands. And you are both correct and incorrect ... The Dutch are probably among the most fluent non-native English speakers in Europe, BUT, they speak for most of them a "good enough" English, and not at all a perfect English. This usually materializes even more when they are writing. There is even several books (usually written by Dutch authors themselves) making fun of "dutchisms". That said, I don't necessarily consider myself better ... Simply, I do other kind of mistakes, so their mistakes usually strike me more than my own mistakes of course, but mistakes of other French speakers as well
- davedx 15y agoFrom the article, he's a Dutch researcher based in Groningen (Netherlands).