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Hi Efraim,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:33:22 -0700 (PDT)
Efraim Pettersson Ivener <efrai...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> Just wanted to point out that international or not doesnt matter.
> What matters is that about 1/5th of tech industry people dont speak
> good hebrew - or any at all - in Israel.
> The tech industry, being an english speaking industry everywhere in
> the world.
>=20
> The events that dont run in english, end up being much smaller, not
> getting top people, and obviously no international support either -
> but they also marginalize the top tech people from within Israel
> itself.
>=20
> If you want to be an opera singer, you must learn italian - a
> scientist, must learn latin - but a techpreneur must learn english.

Well, for some time now, scientists in many (most?) fields did not have to
learn Latin. My father, for example, has a Ph.D. in Immunology (a field
of Biology) and does not know Latin. He knows English very well, though,
and a lot of the ongoing research in Biology is done in English.

I agree about the fact that info-tech workers should learn English, but
I've seen some people who are tech workers with really bad one.

One should note that in many countries students are still taught Latin in
some high-level high schools/etc.

Also see:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/ThePerilsofJavaSchools.html

Sorry for the nit pick. On the lighter side, see:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DIIAdHEwiAy8

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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