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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
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Subject: Re: Internationalization anecdotes wanted
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Date: 8 Aug 90 06:17:23 GMT
References: <1065@limbo.Intuitive.Com> <9068@ubc-cs.UUCP>
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In article <9068@ubc-cs.UUCP> manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) writes:

>they were often called `Lukasiewicz notation' (forward and
>reverse), but people who were non-Polish found this hard to pronounce,
>so people said `prefix Polish' and `postfix Polish' instead. Apparently,
>HP got complaints about the `ethnic slur', so modern HP literature uses
>`RPN' without ever explaining what it means

I take it that the chemical element Polonium (and others) will also be
renamed?  And Hindu-Arabic numerals?

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Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
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