Language of Equalitrianism

All the flowering plants (Angiosperms) have evolved a very dense network of veins. It makes them leaders in between 'water suckers'. Veins are like small pipes - the more of them you have the better you pump up.

Today during the discussion on that topic I felt like language push me out of the group. I still can not transforms quick series of sounds produced by English tongue into meaningful words in my head. I do believe I could join the discussion only if I could follow it.

Here I ask myself: why not to introduce Esperanto (or Latin) - an artificial (or extinct) language into science? Then all of us would have to take more time to produce a correct sentence. It would make communication slower but more efficient. Native language in performance of native speaker sounds like shooting from machine gun.
I must say that Australians have in general a lot of understanding for foreigners. It is nice. I do appreciate it. But what happens if USA/UK/AU lose their world leadership and China will become the mightiest between the mightiest?

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  1. Kathrzn BahnMarch 31, 2009 at 9:50 PM

    'Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle can patter out...' the Aussie vernacular.

    Ahhh - surely we English teachers are allowed to seriously misquote on occasion. This line is taken from a terribly sad WW1 poem by Wilfred Owen, 'Anthem for doomed youth'. I have (mis)applied it to your blog Pawel, but your sentence reminded me.

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