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the_logos wrote:
I think you're way off there.
At the University I attended, we had a significant foreign student population. As they discussed an engineering assignment in their native language, and I unintentionally eavesdropped, I could usually get the jist of the conversation from the sprinkling of english terminology.
These days, I'm involved with a couple of international organizations (standards bodies), where again there is a significant population of non-native english speakers. They use english terminology as well. And really, what's the alternative when the terminology is defined in english to begin with. English is, for the moment, the language of business and technology.
Several years ago, I recall reading about a French government initiative to define french language equivalents for many english technology terms. The concern was the anglofication of the french tech industry. I'm pretty sure it's failed.
-Gromble
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