You've been telling me I'm too sensitive to him. What did I say that upset him that way?"
"You're making him feel inferior and he can't take it." "I'm serious, for God's sake. Tell me the truth."
"Charlie, you've got to stop thinking that everyone is laughing at you.
Nemur couldn't discuss those articles because he hasn't read them. He can't read those languages."
"Not read Hindi and Japanese? Oh, come on now." "Charlie, not everyone has your gift for languages."
"But then how can he refute Rahajamati's attack on this method,
and Tanida's challenge to the validity of this kind of control? He must know about those—"
"No...," said Strauss thoughtfully. "Those papers must be recent. There hasn't been time to get translations made."
"You mean you haven't read them either?" He shrugged. "I'm an even worse linguist than he is.
But I'm certain before the final reports are turned in, all the journals will be combed for additional data."
I didn't know what to say. To hear him admit that both of them were ignorant of whole areas in their own fields was terrifying.
"What languages do you know?" I asked him. "French, German, Spanish, Italian, and enough Swedish to get along."
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