A Language Problem
“Englishmen are the poorest linguists of all,” said Miss L. M. Cratiwell, botanist at the Auckland War Memorial Museum, when explaining to a meeting of the Auckland Institute how linguistic difficulties were surmounted at the international botanical congress, held at Amsterdam last September and attended by 1000 representatives from 55 countries. She said the Dutch were fine linguists, usually speaking at least one other tongue apart from <heir own. English’. French and German were ■poken at the congress toSvercome the speech barrier. Now, more than ever before, there was a tendency for English to be adopted as th" «e ; «mtiflc medium for botany.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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106A Language Problem Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 9
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