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Giorgia Meloni’s Italy wants to rename electricity
(www.politico.eu)
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An even better question is "Why would countries not be allowed to localize standardized words for their own languages?"
Would it seriously be a problem if Italy used "volta" and the U.S. used "volt"?
Has it been a problem with France using "litre" and Italy and Spain using "litro" and the U.S. using "liter"?
I think it's a science thing, just like in biology and medicine they use latin, and math has standardized symbols.
Standards are cool, and the standard for the French litre is liter, despite the liter is of French origin as part of the metric system. And was defined as litre in France in 1793, where the name was based on the older french litron.
For some weird reason these standards are almost always anglified no matter what their origins were?
I suppose Italy is free to use Volta, but it is not the agreed upon international standard.