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A particle physics course for high-school students

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238 points treetalker | 5 comments | 04 Dec 24 03:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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niemandhier ◴[04 Dec 24 07:06 UTC] No.42315103[source]▶
That is brilliant and beautiful, I just wished that they would not default to English.

Sure that’s what you use to talk about particle physics, but this is targeted towards kids and by doing this the “Organisation européenne pour la recherche nucléaire” makes it harder for French, Swiss, German etc. kids to follow.

It should not be hard to do a voiceover, at 4h I’d even volunteer.

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1. 2143 ◴[04 Dec 24 08:36 UTC] No.42315598[source]▶
What should they have defaulted to?

I mean, wouldn't any language they choose exclude others?

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2. bowsamic ◴[04 Dec 24 12:47 UTC] No.42316916[source]▶
French would definitely be the more obvious choice in this case
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3. mschild ◴[04 Dec 24 12:56 UTC] No.42316977[source]▶
Both English and French are the official working languages of Cern.

They should include more languages than just English, but French is not by default the more obvious choice.

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4. bowsamic ◴[04 Dec 24 14:25 UTC] No.42317689{3}[source]▶
Right, but there are other reasons why French is more obvious, not just "by default" but based on arguments and reasoning. Or has HN truly forgotten about these things?
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5. solveit ◴[04 Dec 24 15:00 UTC] No.42318101{4}[source]▶
The previous poster was actually inviting you to expound on the other reasons.