I find it sort of implausible that somebody high in their field is totally ignorant in English, if only because so many papers are only published in English. I

I find it sort of implausible that somebody high in their field is totally ignorant in English, if only because so many papers are only published in English. I've known so many researchers who apologize every other sentence because they say they've only read English and I would never had known otherwise. Which is to say - it'd be wierd to say "well I don't know English and I don't know anybody who does oh well". But, anyway, the papers were published on aeXive in...