A common language fosters research and common understanding. In IT, that language is English. In diplomacy, before interpreters were plentiful, that language w

A common language fosters research and common understanding. In IT, that language is English. In diplomacy, before interpreters were plentiful, that language was French. And in many classical, medieval-era sciences, that language was Latin (as a commonly-understood language that came from it's ease of being learned by romance-language speakers and being rather relevant in the (then church-run) universities). So, there's no indirection intended. It's just an artefact of the past - an artefact that helps Chinese, Spanish and American doctors communicate (in broad strokes) even today.