2009/7/10 Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
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.
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