• spauldo@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      Funny how “lingua franca” doesn’t mean French anymore. English is weird.

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      9 months ago

      I find it both hilarious that English is now the lingua franca of world commerce, and that that’s the term for it in English. It’s fitting, though, since I figure that the way English ransacks borrows from other languages is both a cause and effect of its success.