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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by lmm on Thursday January 26, 2023 @06:54AM (#34530595)
There was a time when German was the language of science and widely studied in many countries. (Japanese has disproportionately many loanwords from German, for example).
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Re:Japan Has Changed a Lot by Tainnor on Thursday January 26, 2023 @03:01PM (#34537885)
Tragically, it was in no small part the fault of the Nazis that led to the decline of German for science. A huge number of German scientists emigrated to the US in the 1930s.
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