19 APR 2013 by ideonexus
Why There Cannot be a Language of Science
We may show that, as it was impossible to make the Latin a vulgar tongue common to all Europe, the continuance of the custom of writing in it upon the sciences would have been attended with a transient advantage only to those who studied them; that the existence of a sort of scientific language among the learned of all nations, while the people of each individual nation spoke a different one, would have divided men into two classes, would have perpetuated in the people prejudices and errors, ...Latin could not become the language of science, common to all educated people, while the countries continued to speak different languages, would create a class division.