Re: abutment

["Eduardo J. Dubuc" <edubuc@dm.uba.ar>]

Well Michael, I do not have at hand your original post. What I do remember of
that post is that you ask for an english translation of the word
"aboutissement", not for a translation a whole sentence containing that word.

In my whole experience reading mathematics written in english, I do not
remember to have seen the word "abutment".

On the other hand, I am tired of reading spanish translations (from english or
french or russian) of mathematical texts where single words are replaced by
their spanish translations, and the result is completely alien to standard
mathematical spanish.

Does the word "abutment" belong to standard mathematical english ?

Eduardo.




Michael Barr
> Maybe Eduardo should have read my whole post.
>
> Michael
>
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, edubuc wrote:
>
>>
>> I suggest to Michael Barr to send the whole  sentence where it is found
>> the word "aboutissement",  and ask for a translation  of the sentence.
>> He will get a better  english version that just a rendering into english
>> of that word.
>>
>> May be the natural 21 century mathematical english version of the french
>> sentence will not even use the word "abutment".
>>
>>
>> Michael Barr wrote:
>>>  That seems to be the translation of the word, thanks to several.  That
>>>  still leaves that mysterious E^{pq} ---> G^p(E^{p+q}) to correct,
>>> since I
>>>  do not believe that it is correct as stands.
>>>
>>>  Michael
>>>
>>
>>
>>