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 Meetingheld in Boston from August 30 through September 2to 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 well 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.
Good then. I’ll do my work in Klingon or Romulan.
In the new math 25% = a handful.
Idea: How about all these folks spend their scarce time developing some marketable skills and stop their constant, mentally disturbed OC nit-picking, sulking, & navel-gazing?
-PJ
I think I shall learn Gaelic and really throw a monkey wrench into things.
>>invited presenters to decenter English as the de facto language of academia.
Fine, teach all courses in Latin then.
Idiots. Will they use ay-rab instead? May as well. They are here, and making a lot of ay-rab speaking babies.
Take their damn money. Stop funding the insanity.
The words in the article in quotes are English words. They should be disregarded. The authors should instead have written their plea in one of Indias dialects, otherwise they are utterly inconsistent. And never translate it into English, either.
PC kills everything it touches.
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