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by wadkar 2014 days ago
> It’s so much easier to express yourself in good and convincing and clear ways (plus as the lingua franca in many of those domains, there isn’t necessarily a great German translation).

It’s easier to express because Englisch is _the_ lingua franca of those fields. It would have been a totally different case had some other language, say French or Mandarin had been at the forefront of scientific literature advancement and dissemination.

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Yes. That was my point.

You miss 30% of the vocabulary, well, you won’t have a great conversation about a topic...