On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Milos Rancic<[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:53 PM, David Gerard<[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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. If someone knows someone, putting eight billion dollars a year into English-language teaching in Africa, China, Australia and elsewhere would be a good place to start. -Stevertigo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
