OT: the power of English

[Tom Zurinskas]

I've read somewhere that 95% of the scientific journals are in English.  

Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, Tenn 3, NJ 33, now Fl 9.
See how English spelling links to sounds at http://justpaste.it/ayk


 
 

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> Despite theTV ad for sump-nutha WRT someone studying Cantonese when he
> should have been studying Mandarin, implying the fall of English as the
> international language.
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