@khaledhosny2: Quit the hate mongering and playing the victim. You should know better. Several valuable contributors have left this place on completely unfounded accusations of patronizing. You want more people to leave? Go right ahead.
If somebody has a crazy idea and wants to implement that, it’s not patronizing to advise them to rethink their plans, it’s being helpful.
Unless some rich people in the Arabian world are willing to pay for the translation of every book on science into Arabic, people will have to read books on science in a foreign language, most likely English, with mathematical formulas LTR. I am Dutch, and I had to read lots of English. It’s a matter of common sense to learn to read formulas in the style most widely used in the world, for sooner or later you will be exposed to them, anyway. So, you might as well start learning to read that style of formulas sooner.
All astronomers in the entire world use the names Algol, Betelgeuse, Deneb, etc. for individual stars, because Arabic astronomers were the first to give names to individual stars. It’s not superiority but priority that matters, and of course prevalence. If you want to make a difference in the world of science, publish in English. Not because that is a superior language, but because you will then be most widely read.
