The Naturejobs Special Report "Lost in translation" (Nature 445,454-455; 2007) discussed the importance of good English to a scientific career, as well as the difficulties experienced by scientists whose first language is not English. Having worked in four countries, and having a lab of eight people from seven different countries, I have found that languages are living entities that evolve continuously. English is under the constant influence of other languages and cultures: 'latte', for example, now appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as well in cafes around the United Kingdom.
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