[ward]

> Science becomes a Special Discipline requiring Special Language different than what your family uses at home. Like if all science were still done in French or Latin, and you needed to study those to read a paper.

You realize this is still a problem for most of the world and needing to learn English, right? :P I'm hoping we can solve this in my lifetime with everyone knowing one standard language through education as a child, but as it stands the struggle is real for many of my fellow non native English speakers.

That said I agree with you, all these differences are a pain and I'm confronted with them way too often in my daily life.

[umanwizard]

> I'm hoping we can solve this in my lifetime with everyone knowing one standard language through education as a child

It seems like this is rapidly becoming the case in the Western world, and that that language is English.

[jbay808]

Absolutely! America is very lucky to have come out on the right side of that lottery. But then it unnecessarily goes and handicaps itself by making measurements into a foreign language.