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Same-sex marriages

Latin and Science

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[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Interesting.. Regarding the Latin and science link, I think it makes a false assumption. He says that science didn't slow down when people stopped writing in Latin... But many non-English-speaking scientists end up publishing in English; it's the new universal language. And some science did get slowed down, or at least misdirected--I'm in paleontology, and there's a wonderful German text on bone histology that next to no one here knows about. So we miss out because we can't read it. So it is still an issue.

[ladytalon.livejournal.com]

Interesting.. Regarding the Latin and science link, I think it makes a false assumption. He says that science didn't slow down when people stopped writing in Latin... But many non-English-speaking scientists end up publishing in English; it's the new universal language. And some science did get slowed down, or at least misdirected--I'm in paleontology, and there's a wonderful German text on bone histology that next to no one here knows about. So we miss out because we can't read it. So it is still an issue.