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Originally posted by Vaskez:
One thing a global language is very good for, is research - if everyone published in different languages, then the rate of progress would be crap! People would just end up reinventing the wheel, being unaware that what they're doing has already been done in another country, and the sharing of ideas would be much less.
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I agree, it would be very good for research, but, unfortunately, very bad for other languages. If you'd have researchers publish only in English, for example (which is more and more common to do), other languages would not develop in those parts of the vocabulary. Already you have researchers in Sweden who're not able to express their ideas in Swedish, because they're publishing in English, researching in English, and also partially taught in English. It's sad that some languages will become obsolete in these different areas... And if that happens, then they also won't be used in these areas that often. But I do see how it's good for science. It's just bad that languages would have to suffer because of it.