Everyone knows that the universal language of science is English, which is not to say that scientific papers are not published in other languages, but if the author wants his or her papers to be widely read, they must publish in English. However, the citizens of the world speak many different languages and their lives are impacted by scientific research just as much as English-speaking peoples' live are .. so, ScienceBlogs is launching a German-speaking counterpart and now they are wondering .. which language should they focus on next? They have a very short poll (2 questions) for you to answer to help them out.
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Now that Seed scienceblogs are taking over the world, one language at a time, the overlords are asking: which language to conquer next? That's a poll which you should go and take. But my thoughts first:
Some languages have few or no science blogs. Others have many but are a a closed community,…
Year after year, the Swedish language is spoken by a smaller percentage of the world's population. And year after year, the geographical area where Swedish is spoken shrinks a little. But year after year, Swedish is spoken by an increasing number of people. How does this work?
Although Swedish…
Note: The authors have a website which summarizes their research (via Language Log).
Speaking in tones? Blame it on your genes:
People who carry particular variants of two genes involved in brain development tend to speak nontonal languages such as English, while those with a different genetic…
tags: researchblogging.org, open access, publishing, life science research, Declan Butler
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Wow, have you read Declan Butler's nasty little hatchet job that was just published in Nature about the Public Library of Science (PLoS)? My jaw hit the top of the table in my little coffee…
Not quite. The universal language of science is more accurately broken English.
'mer'can perhaps?
Lots of English variants nowadays; I always enjoy listening to Hinglish.
Actually the language of science in George Bush America is pidgin, as in , "Science: the man, he done gone . . ."