Brian Bloch＊s excellent piece on impenetrable academic German (※Tapeworm got your tongue?§, News, 12 June) reminded me of a comment I heard many years ago about the German professoriate: ※Sie sch?men sich, wenn sie verstanden werden.§ (They are ashamed when they are understood.)
P車l ? Dochartaigh
National University of Ireland, Galway
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