| ▲ | shlewis 6 hours ago |
| Why is this not written in German, I'm afraid to ask? |
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| ▲ | kuerbel 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Why is it not written in French? Or Italian? Or Romansh? Because Switzerland has four official languages and English makes it easier for everyone |
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| ▲ | ale42 an hour ago | parent [-] | | Not really. It's because the target audience is more academic/scientific rather than the Swiss population at large. In the latter case, it would be in the local languages. The law is relatively clear for this. English is not accepted in Switzerland as a replacement language for the "local" ones, although many people can speak or at least understand some English. | | |
| ▲ | kuerbel 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | heavy sigh I'm Swiss. I know. What I meant to say is that German is not the default language in Switzerland. |
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| ▲ | backscratches an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's a university in a French speaking region for one. |
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| ▲ | rrgok an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why it has to be german? |
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| ▲ | arh5451 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Because german is hard. |
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| ▲ | j7ake 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Most researchers in Switzerland are non-Swiss, and many institutes have English as language of business |
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| ▲ | lynguist 21 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Staff nationality of Swiss higher education institutions: - Universities: 55% Swiss, 45% foreign
- Universities of applied sciences: 75% Swiss, 25% foreign
- Universities of teacher education: 87% Swiss, 13% foreign
- Professors: 49% Swiss, 51% foreign
- PhDs/scientific collaborators: 30% Swiss, 70% foreign
- Professors of ETH Zurich: 31% Swiss, 69% foreign |
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| ▲ | dirasieb 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| english is the lingua franca |
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| ▲ | dackdel 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| because the brits won the language wars. |
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