Posted on 09/05/2017 12:17:08 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Worried that “xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise,” organizers of a recent academic conference invited presenters to “decenter English as the de facto language” of academia.
The Society for Social Studies of Science is particularly concerned that English is the official language of both the US and the UK, whose current policies they say "send a message of insulation and parochialism to the world."
Worried that “xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise,” organizers of a recent academic conference invited presenters to “decenter English as the de facto language” of academia.
Specifically, the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) invited presenters at its Annual Meeting—held in Boston from August 30 through September 2—to hand in research papers in languages other than English to promote “linguistic pluralism.”
“While English has become a scientific lingua franca that has been favoured in communications and networking across the globe, it is the official language of just a handful of countries, most prominently the United States of America and the United Kingdom,” the appeal notes, asserting that “the current policies of these two countries send a message of insulation and parochialism to the world, explicitly threatening the richness and importance of human difference.”
Despite their aversion to the English language, though, the organizers do specify that all presentations must come with English translations “to secure full understanding of each presentation.”
They also acknowledge that the initiative will be “a collective experiment...in which we’ll trial different ways in which presenters can express their ideas in the language with which they feel most comfortable,” encouraging presenters to be creative with their approaches.
Their justification for this is that "English" might offend someone since it is the prominent language in the United States and the U.K..
Oh how DARE YOU SPEAK ENGLISH in Academia in the United States. Never mind the fact it's the business language of the world. Good grief these people are loons!
For the Academic dumb@sses..... If we are so racist, then why is everyone wanting to come here?
Next up... air traffic control!
-PJ
So, a grad student can compose a thesis or dissertation in Klingon, eh?
Self destructive psycho cases seeking to inflict their illness on the rest of us. Common idiots, no matter how many “academic” degrees they pile up.
Worried that “xenophobia and nationalism are on the rise,”
They tried pushing Esperanto in the 1960s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW7AuyIwN2A
Incubus Trailer
You never really capture Shakespeare until you read it in the original Klingon...
Yes, just so long as a Klingon translator is provided for the presentation. But has to be a real native Klingon, none of that cultural appropriation stuff, nosiree...
And there is the lie.
From List of territorial entities where English is an official language:
In 2015, there were 54 sovereign states and 27 non-sovereign entities where English was an official language. Many country subdivisions have declared English an official language at the local or regional level.
"Fifty-four sovereign states" is over 25% of the world's countries. That is a "handful?"
-PJ
Make English the official language of the USA.
Do away with daylight savings time. It's plain stupid.
Ignorant twits. English is either the de jure or de facto official language in over 70 countries, including Canada, Australia, India, South Africa, most of east africa etc etc.
Turn all of academia into a useless Tower of Babel that cannot communicate with itself?
Works for me.
I think they know exactly what they are doing — trying to destroy the nation and the English speaking people. I will have to say it again, these people are microscopic in their diligence to destroy the nation. NOTHING passes them by. Nothing.
I believe Parliamentary debates in India are conducted in English.
Australia
Belize
Botswana British West Indies**
Canada
England
The Gambia
Ghana
Guyana
Ireland
Kenya
Lesotho
Liberia
Malawi
Mauritius
New Zealand
Nigeria
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Sierra Leone
Sri Lanka
Somalia
Swaziland
Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Union of South Africa
United Kingdom
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Ebonics rulz!
Idiots!
And, although I wish it was, English is not the official language of the USA. Attempts to make it such have failed in the past.
Well said!
Correct. Hindi or English. In Canada the debates in the federal parliament are in English or French. Also English is the official language of Bangladesh, not an economic powerhouse, but a country of 120 million people.
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