Sujet : Re: Clarke Award Finalists 1993
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 25. Apr 2025, 14:54:59
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On 2025-04-25, Joy Beeson <
jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
In 1960, my college advisor told me that a math major must
learn German. I did well, but not well enough to read math
papers.
Sorry, but evidently you did very poorly, because textbooks or
science papers in one's area of expertise rank near the top for
easiest to read foreign language texts.
Today, I can't even read de.alt.fan.aldi
That is a lot harder than math papers, language-wise.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de