Timeline for How to respond to "unfair to write English" comments?
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| Aug 24, 2023 at 23:43 | comment | added | Dmitry Savostyanov | @AgnishomChattopadhyay Some reviewers are power hungry individuals, allowing their insecurities and biases to compromise their academic judgement. | |
| Aug 24, 2023 at 15:42 | comment | added | Agnishom Chattopadhyay | Certain paper reviewers commenting "The English is in this paper does not seem to be native usage" seem to disagree with this idea | |
| May 17, 2021 at 21:47 | vote | accept | Daniel R. Collins | ||
| May 17, 2021 at 21:47 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | I'm marking this as the selected answer, because it will definitely be part of my response in the future, and it's by far the mostly highly upvoted at this time. I would encourage readers to check out several of the other answers below, because they provide many additional great points. I've added an answer of my own to compile my favorite pieces (likely much further below). | |
| May 12, 2021 at 8:01 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @stupidstudent Nobody at any conference until you get someone at a certain conference ;) . Your argument is valid until proven contrary ---> you have to visit every conference in the world and attend every talk and every poster to be sure about your statement! Try harder, try at the poster session, try at conference outside IT subjects ... | |
| May 12, 2021 at 7:36 | comment | added | gerrit | @stupidstudent A colleague went to an "international" conference in St. Petersburg in the early 2010s. Almost all presentations were in Russian. After my (Swedish) colleague presented in English, an old Russian scientist approached him and said in very broken English that he thought from the plots that my colleague's work looked very good, but that he hadn't understood anything my colleague said. So — I agree with you for most conferences, but there are still exceptions. | |
| May 12, 2021 at 5:34 | comment | added | Greg | I think you guys missing the point. There is a big difference between "can", "reliably can" and "effortlessly can". For a native speaker, talking to a piece of wood in their mother tongue is easy, and Halmos's point is to encourage this natural, effortless state vs using symbols. For most foreign students, it is not an effortless, natural conversation, with free flow of thoughts. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 20:43 | comment | added | stupidstudent | Nobody, at any conferece I attented, was unable to speak english. Yes some people had a strong accent but everyone was able to follow the talks which were held in english. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 20:42 | comment | added | EarlGrey | @pjs absolutely, after URSS dissolution, English is the (only?) lingua franca for science. Russian was also a lingua franca, in the 70s it was not uncommon to have Russian books and papers discussed in East Germany or in Czech Republic. Much of the Russian knowledge and skills have been imported into the western world. Nowadays, even commercial blogging is done in English instead of, let's say, German, to reach a wider audience. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 17:42 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | (+1) Especially for It is sufficient (and often advisable) to keep the structure of sentences very simple. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 17:10 | comment | added | pjs | @EarlGrey I find your comment interesting because (to me) it simultaneously suggests that 1) English skills do not need to be perfect, but 2) since English is the lingua franca of much professional communication there is a working skill level that is essential. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 15:01 | comment | added | EarlGrey | Funny how full knowledge is not necessary at research and at the top-level (see, ehm, hear the average English level at conferences), but how relevant is "local language" to get good grades in the modern teaching of mathematics at the lower level (high school, college, BSc and MSc ...). Source: personal experience at international conferences, personal bad english. | |
| S May 11, 2021 at 9:41 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 10, 2021 at 14:00 | history | answered | Dmitry Savostyanov | CC BY-SA 4.0 |