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The article does suggest two “fixes” and none of them involve your conspiracy theory about leftists. * Journals could provide more editing support, possibly wi

The article does suggest two “fixes” and none of them involve your conspiracy theory about leftists. * Journals could provide more editing support, possibly with AI translation tools. * Journals could allow multilingual submissions.

fluoridation 3y ago
>* Journals could allow multilingual submissions. That doesn't really fix anything. If you submit in an unpopular language you're willingly limiting the reach your paper is going to get. That's not a problem just for the researcher, but also for the community at large.
- bannedbybros 3y ago
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local_crmdgeon 3y ago
Multilingual submissions is a terrible idea. Who's going to read my ML paper in Nahuatl? Just learn English, or if you're in China, Mandarin.
- pvaldes 3y ago
  To translate literature is the job of a professional translator or a machine. Period. The time of an expert is too much expensive to spent it on that, so this is an extremely dumb tradition. In fact is so dumb that research is the only part of literature where the author is required to write also the translated edition. Just imagine how much damage that would do to the literature if we would apply that rule to every piece of poetry or every written novel, and how many interesting authors and books we would lose. Do you imagine how much JK Rowling would struggle writing Harry Potter in Spanish, and how much extra time and effort would need to put on it? This is exactly the same (except that you give your novel for free instead to became rich).
- pvaldes 3y ago
  > Who's going to read my ML paper in Nahuatl? If you provide a clever solution for climate change on it, every-f*ng-body. Abstracts were created exactly for this. And if your intended audience is mostly composed of Nahuatl speakers or your theme is about this group, you should positively consider to write it on this language. Not all science papers are mean to interest everybody in the planet. There are lots and lots of specialized niches.

fluoridation 3y ago

>* Journals could allow multilingual submissions. That doesn't really fix anything. If you submit in an unpopular language you're willingly limiting the reach your paper is going to get. That's not a problem just for the researcher, but also for the community at large.

bannedbybros 3y ago
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local_crmdgeon 3y ago

Multilingual submissions is a terrible idea. Who's going to read my ML paper in Nahuatl? Just learn English, or if you're in China, Mandarin.

pvaldes 3y ago
To translate literature is the job of a professional translator or a machine. Period. The time of an expert is too much expensive to spent it on that, so this is an extremely dumb tradition. In fact is so dumb that research is the only part of literature where the author is required to write also the translated edition. Just imagine how much damage that would do to the literature if we would apply that rule to every piece of poetry or every written novel, and how many interesting authors and books we would lose. Do you imagine how much JK Rowling would struggle writing Harry Potter in Spanish, and how much extra time and effort would need to put on it? This is exactly the same (except that you give your novel for free instead to became rich).
pvaldes 3y ago
> Who's going to read my ML paper in Nahuatl? If you provide a clever solution for climate change on it, every-f*ng-body. Abstracts were created exactly for this. And if your intended audience is mostly composed of Nahuatl speakers or your theme is about this group, you should positively consider to write it on this language. Not all science papers are mean to interest everybody in the planet. There are lots and lots of specialized niches.