The whole point of using a “dead” language is that languages change over time and scientists once had the foresight to attempt making their works more universal over both multiple languages and over time.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months agoUm English? It’s the international language and language of research, though some may not like hearing that.
zarathustrad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let’s rename everything every century or so. It should make things easier.
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 2 months ago
English is only the lingua franca for now, but that, as well as the English language, will inevitably change.
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
English might change drastically so much that we change words entirely (so old abbreviations don’t match new words), so let’s just go with the guaranteed dead language where abbreviations already don’t line up. Yeah I can’t agree with that logic.