2009/7/10 stevertigo <[email protected]>: > 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.
You're going to have to explain that one... what is wrong with the current English-language teaching in Australia? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
