On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/10 Milos Rancic <[email protected]>: >> 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.
English is the last lingua franca. In 20-30 years we'll have good enough translators and in 20-30 years it is not big enough period of time for changing lingua franca. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
