[Air-l] Hungarian and others

[Jakob Linaa Jensen]

The discussion about other languages sometimes seems a bit bizarre. English is (and remains) the lingua franca of academic work. Spanish might achieve a similar position over time but for now, it is English. I admit that we might miss important work and exclude some persons by having English as a working language but the costs of including more languages are too big, in my opinion.

And what is the problem. I am a Scandinavian and we always have to do a lot of things in two languages: English and our own. We survive, although the native English speakers have a privileged position, not at least in face to face academic discussions, which they should appreciate :-)

Jakob Linaa Jensen
University of Aarhus, Denmark

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Sendt: 5. oktober 2004 18:33
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