STEV

STEV.

The Stellar Evolution course page of Onno Pols & Matteo Cantiello at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, in English, the Universal language of Academia (at least for non-Dutch speakers like moi.)

An aside: The more I speak to non-English speakers who are learning my mongrel birth-tongue, the sillier English seems. Half Latin, half Norse/French, all arbitarily frozen-in spellings and pronounciations which probably would sound and look incomprehensible to Chaucer and Erasmus. We can’t even read Shakespeare or the 1611 King James Bible without misreading various words and turns of phrase.

That’s all natural, as language is alive and evolves… which is why it’s so frustrating that we can’t be a bit more arbitary, yet rational, about the whole damned thing.