Language for a polyglot readership
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Making English-language scientific literature such as Nature comprehensible by speakers of other languages is a difficult problem. The use of overly obscure allusions, inconsistent diction and complex sentence structure can make scientific writing in English hard to translate and can prevent a polyglot readership from understanding it. However, such writing must not be simplified too much lest it end up sounding infantile. Nature and other such publications must strive to find a middle way that maximizes both English expressiveness and international accessibility.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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New ways with the solar nebula
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The traditional theory of the Solar System's evolution has failed to retain support because of problems with how the contracting nebula formed different planets. However, a theory advanced by Russians S.N. Atutov and A.M. Shalagin based on light-induced drift to explain the deuterium to hydrogen ratio from inner to outer planets seems to provide an adequate solution. The photons from the contracting nebula would have been absorbed by the molecules differently depending on their motion.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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