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by comte7092 1240 days ago
I think that’s more of a reflection of the fact that English is the dominant Lingua Franca for those subjects.

When you’re at the cutting edge of research, it’s inevitable that you are going to have to come up with new words/language to describe new concepts, and so that process has been happening in English for decades.

It’s a fairly common phenomenon that languages assimilate words from other languages as new concepts are introduced by people who use that other language.

So I think it’s a bit of a stretch to say that English has some sort of superior utility for expressing scientific/programming concepts, at least not innately. It’s just that it’s more fleshed out after being used so heavily for such over a long time.