> When using a language none of us speaks we can truly be equals. It's the opposite: having a preferred "high language" for science means it's gatekept by peop

> When using a language none of us speaks we can truly be equals. It's the opposite: having a preferred "high language" for science means it's gatekept by people who have the means to learn it. Those people will have the home field advantage, much like it was for much of history. Plus it's just a bad idea. Firstly, it'll take more time for young students to learn to read a scientific paper. Second, you significanly diminish the pool of thinkers and therefore scientists, you're basically making 99% of the population illiterate. Finally there will always be more people willing to communicate in the "vulgar" language and it's where all new vocabulary will be created, which is why every single high language has pretty much died off except in cerimonial contexts. English is just the language du jour, before that it was French, German in some fields, Arabic, Latin, Greek, etc.