Единица измерения - англ.

[vappu.livejournal.com]

Я всегда думала, что единица измерения это unit of measurement. Коллега (не переводчик, не русскоязычный) уперся рогом, что unit of measure. Я ему уже ссылку на страницы Международной палаты мер и весов давала, где написано, что СИ - это система units of measurement, а он все упирается, и обойти его я не могу.
Вопрос: как доказать человеку (хорошему человеку, то есть необидно чтобы), что это все же measurement? Или я уперлась совершенно зря?

Речь не идет ни о каком контексте, таблица с данными - цифры в одной колонке, единица измерения - в другой...

Comments

[emdrone.livejournal.com]

LET'S FOLLOW THE STANDARD PROCEDURE
(i.e. I am not supplying you with mere answers, but am trying to outline a standard algorithm you could use at any time on your own)

1. So, let's check Google, first of all:
"unit of measurement" -- About 30,700,000 results
"unit of measure" -- About 7,300,000 results

2. Let's check Wikipedia for its definitions (W. is a brain-dead and politically censored resource that is useful at times because it is brought to absolute compliance with the American worldview and usage by a small army of editors and censors).
---- Unit of measure commonly refers to Units of measurement for relevance to weights and measures. ----
(and "units of measurement" is the non-specific, generic article on the subject)

3. I think also, although I did not check it properly, that what we are dealing with here is the difference btw American language as compared to the English language. A somewhat similar example, I believe, is "transport/transportation":
"A means of transport" in one of the languages would become "a means of transportation" in the other.

So just calm down. And check if your vis-a-vis in this dispute is American or studied in the States

[emdrone.livejournal.com]

.. or maybe "units of measure" is pompous, old and more formal style, while "u.of m-ment" is more modern, another possibility.

Anyway, both are used, and the "xxment" is a far more common and standard name for it.

[vappu.livejournal.com]

I get your point. The question was not about it. I guess a link to SI-pages weighs more than Wiki (after all, they keep the metric system going) and that has been already given to the guy.
The question was whether (and how) to persuade the guy that I am right OR to forget the case and let it be unit of measure if he wants it so.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Покажите ему ссылку на Гугл и пусть сам решает.