> English is the last lingua franca So it's better to say Lingua Anglica http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,869957,00.html ;)
> ... In 20-30 years we'll have good > enough translators Do you mean computer tools like Google Translate or human interpreters? On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Milos Rancic<[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
