• Question: As there are alot of scientific words,can there be a language of science

    Asked by arun201 to Bob, Katie, Nisha, Sallie, Vee on 27 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: Sallie Baxendale

      Sallie Baxendale answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      You are right – lots of scientific words come from the latin – this is paticularly the case in biology. The international language for science is English. This means we have an advantage in the UK. When we publish our research we are writing in our own language. Scientists who are working in France or Germany or any other non-english speaking country have to be good at science AND english if they want to publish their work in the best scientific journals and talk at the best conferences

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      Vee Mitchell answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      That would be really useful, but English is the language used to communicate science so that is really the language of science. We do have lots of long complicated words which came from Latin but at least we now have google.

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      Bob Bonwick answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hmmm yes the are a lot of words, many of them are Latin too. More often we make them up though, but they are agreed on and everyone knows what that word means. Also some things are named after people. The inventor or the first person who discovered it.

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