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You're right. Imagine if other countries had science journals in their own languages. Science would collapse and politics would reign supreme.

• Mauricebranagh 6y ago
  You do know that pre ww2 if you worked in chemistry (and physics to an extent) you basically had to learn German, so you could read the papers.
  • Apocryphon 6y ago
    It happened to be the lingua franca for the field at the time. So?
    • Mauricebranagh 6y ago
      And the lingua franca for programming is English so what
      • Apocryphon 6y ago
        That it is. Your point is?