Thomas Dalton wrote: > 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? > Maybe Henry Higgins could answer that.
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