2009/7/10 Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com>:

> So, even a discipline with a lot of polyglots can't work without lingua 
> franca.


I remember reading in Isaac Asimov's autobiography how, as a chemist
in the 1940s, he had to learn French and German well enough to read
papers in those languages. So the lingua franca in a field varies with
time as well as field.


- d.

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