Originally Posted by kerry

I don't think I agree with that. Just because I don't understand Swahili doesn't mean that there are no other people who can determine whether the Swahili speaker is making sense or not.

Same with the Latin issue. Education becomes more widely available if it's not conducted in a second language but it doesn't mean that faith is necessary, just other Latin speakers.

There may be sociological consequences insofar as the kind of people skilled in advanced Math may share some characteristics not commonly found in the general population but I don't think that translates directly into the view that physics must always be explicible in the vernacular independent of Math.