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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by WilliamEdward on Thursday September 13, 2018 @05:46AM (#17977272)
You're all missing one important point: The advancements of translation technology. In due time it might not even be necessary to learn any other language at all. I wouldn't even put a single penny on Chinese becoming the dominant language, even besides this fact.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by jjeaff on Thursday September 13, 2018 @06:20AM (#17977427)
How much has it really advanced? I hear this all the time, but I am always unimpressed when I see actual results.
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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by mrep on Friday September 14, 2018 @04:04PM (#17990492)
I recently stumbled upon GAFAM [0] which is a french acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft and google translate auto-translated the page really well. I even went off to some the french sources and google translate handled them all amazingly well.

[0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM

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Re:China now the most prolific contributor to physical scien... by WilliamEdward on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:14AM (#17977953)
Not much admittedly. But the potential is there, just no one really put any effort into it yet.
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