Thankfully we now have hypertext, ambiguities in a text can be ironed out by authors. Multi user wikis can help insert discussion into a text. Hypertext, and the written English language is the way forward for scientific communication.
Alex On Tuesday, 31 March 2015, iain <[email protected]> wrote: > An interesting but ultimately not very convincing argument especially > considering that there are no alternatives recommended. Of course languages > are not all that great for international or scientific communication > because they are designed to work locally within the community rather then > globally. I can think of Japanese with its three alphabets of characters; > or German where you have to wait for 5 min before the verb arrives to tell > you whether you house is on fire now or last year...and so on. As for > ambiguities, one might note that that is what punctuation is for - removing > the ambiguities or perhaps leaving them in. Pronunciation seems to be a > universal problem whether in English or any other language (I have had a > Tokyo based Japanese interpreter tell me she cannot understand the accent > for someone from the south). So I think these are universal problems rather > than English problems. > > But that is different from the hegemony of English over pretty much > everything (and worse it is American English as well) which Jeremy > mentioned. I am glad TW is keen to been more international because if it > pisses me off that everything seems to be in American English bit must be > much worse for the non-English speakers. > > Iain > > On Monday, 30 March 2015 22:56:55 UTC+11, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> http://www.madore.org/~david/weblog/d.2015-03-20.2284.html >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','tiddlywiki%[email protected]');> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
