[Foundation-l] The problem with native languages vs. the lingua franca

[David Gerard]

2009/7/10 Milos Rancic <millosh at 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.


- d.