A number of years ago I shared an office with a Chinese physisist who was a guest at the university at the time. He was born in Bejing and had his physics education in China.

Obviously the topic of languages came up once in a while (given my interest in linguistics) and he claimed that it was much easier to do physics in English than in Chinese. More generally, his claim was that English is more suitable a language for scientific thinking than Chinese is. Consequently, when considering physics problems, he did this in English in his mind.

Since I don't know any Chinese (or non-Western European language for that matter) I've never been able to grasp what he meant, and hence would be happy to hear comments on this.

Best regards, -gjb-

In reply to Re: Polyglot Challenges by gjb
in thread Polyglot Challenges by Petras

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