...he had to learn French and German well enough to
read
I'd like to stress that he needed French *and* German meaning that in
any field of activity dominating lingua franca (or lingua anglica ) is
not the only foreign language that one will need to know in order to
really profess that field.
Even in computer sciences & engineering where lingua anglica is
undisputable dominator in some (not so rare) cases one should beg
Google Translate to assist in grasping some article or forum posting
made in Spanish, German, French… (to name a few)
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:53 PM, David Gerard<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/10 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
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.
- d.
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