Science's language barrier

Science's language barrier

In January, for example, a biostatistics professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, chastised students from China for speaking in their native language on campus. [...]our knowledge of large parts of the world's biodiversity is much less robust than it could be. Because I was in Fr...

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Published in:Nature (London) Vol. 570; no. 7760; pp. 265 - 267
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group 13-06-2019
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Colleges & universities
Cybernetics
Language
Learning
Native languages
Researchers
Science
Scientists
Social networks
Students
China
Europe
India
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Summary:In January, for example, a biostatistics professor at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, chastised students from China for speaking in their native language on campus. [...]our knowledge of large parts of the world's biodiversity is much less robust than it could be. Because I was in France, most of my colleagues and friends were not from an English-speaking country, and we were learning English with each other. In computer science, English terms such as 'Internet', 'software' and 'cybernetics' are now used almost universally.
ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687