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I'm guessing it's an EU thing to make the article easily discoverable for 3 main EU languages (how the English language thing will work after Brexit, no idea. E

I'm guessing it's an EU thing to make the article easily discoverable for 3 main EU languages (how the English language thing will work after Brexit, no idea. EU may still have English as an official language for cross border communication). Many academic people speak English well enough to read the article. I'm guessing from my own struggles while Googling stuff in a different language, that is a different art.

Symbiote 8y ago
English is an official language of Ireland and Malta, so it will retain that status. It's currently a procedural language of the EU, and is likely to retain that position as its so well understood in the North and East of Europe.
Freak_NL 8y ago
I don't think it's that; German would have been chosen instead of Spanish if that was the case.
- rabboRubble 8y ago
  True. The strange thing is the site overall has other journal articles with the same English, French, Spanish abstract set up. May be a convention for that site. I'm guessing that the article itself isn't translated into those other languages due to cost. The site provides paid translation services.
Bromskloss 8y ago
What does the European Union have to do with this?
- rabboRubble 8y ago
  The publishing company hosting the article is headquartered in London. I wondered if the location might have something to do with the languages found in the abstract. The languages are an odd selection. If they were going for penetration, why no Chinese or Hindi? I tried to find guidance on their website if the presented languages were mandatory but could not. Other journal articles had the same 3 languages in the abstract so it appeared to be a convention for that site. I did find translation services, for a cost which explains why the article was not translated into those languages. Edit: PS had an incredibly slow Sunday obviously :)

Symbiote 8y ago

English is an official language of Ireland and Malta, so it will retain that status. It's currently a procedural language of the EU, and is likely to retain that position as its so well understood in the North and East of Europe.

Freak_NL 8y ago

I don't think it's that; German would have been chosen instead of Spanish if that was the case.

rabboRubble 8y ago
True. The strange thing is the site overall has other journal articles with the same English, French, Spanish abstract set up. May be a convention for that site. I'm guessing that the article itself isn't translated into those other languages due to cost. The site provides paid translation services.

Bromskloss 8y ago

What does the European Union have to do with this?

rabboRubble 8y ago
The publishing company hosting the article is headquartered in London. I wondered if the location might have something to do with the languages found in the abstract. The languages are an odd selection. If they were going for penetration, why no Chinese or Hindi? I tried to find guidance on their website if the presented languages were mandatory but could not. Other journal articles had the same 3 languages in the abstract so it appeared to be a convention for that site. I did find translation services, for a cost which explains why the article was not translated into those languages. Edit: PS had an incredibly slow Sunday obviously :)