Hebrew and Arabic are really close, which is bad because you really really don't want to mix them up, and Russian and Arabic have some really bizarre cognates. But as different as Arabic and Russian are, first day of college Russian, after I had taken years of it, and a year of Arabic, I opened my mouth, and both came out. With my mother's German syntax.
It's interesting to note that in the US, the majority of hard science degrees go to men, and the one science where there are a significant proportion of women, biology, is considered the least prestigious. Art, music, theater, etc. degrees are awarded to men and women about evenly, but soft sciences and history degrees go to women in similar proportions as the hard science degrees go to men. Think this might have anything to do with it?
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Date: 2011-09-10 01:25 pm (UTC)It's interesting to note that in the US, the majority of hard science degrees go to men, and the one science where there are a significant proportion of women, biology, is considered the least prestigious. Art, music, theater, etc. degrees are awarded to men and women about evenly, but soft sciences and history degrees go to women in similar proportions as the hard science degrees go to men. Think this might have anything to do with it?