Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993

James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

In article <87v7r5yk1l.fsf@moroka.fritz.box>,
Stephen Harker  <sjharker@aussiebroadband.com.au> wrote:

Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> writes:
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On 2025-04-14, James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
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Which 1993 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?

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Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson

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... where I learned that English geologic vocabulary is full of German.

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I understand that is because when in the Medieval period they wanted to
exploit mineral resources they did the usual invite specialists who were
from Germany.  Probably with incentives.

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My engineer grandfather once mentioned MIT encouraged him to learn
German. That would have been the late 1920s, early 1930s.

Yes.  And German was required for chemistry students well into the fifties,
because all of the papers were written in German.
--scott

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