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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  English as a Lingua Franca.
  I bet frenchies are so salty about it

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  • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Italians (Latin) and Greeks were salty before them. And the Anglo-Saxons will be salty when Chinese, Indian or an African language becomes the new lingua franca. That’s

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    • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s what? Talk about a cliff hanger! 😳

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    • Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Why would the lingua franca change again? No type of Chinese, Indian, nor any African language has even remotely the same spread as English does. I’d wager some proficiency in English exist in a sizeable part of the population in almost every country on earth, same can’t be said for most other languages (if any).

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      • SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If history is anything to go by, the English speaking world runs into some trouble. Nothing much new comes out in English while somebody else becomes dominant in research and publishes in their language. That’s getting picked up in academia and politics and if anyone wants to be up to date, they learn that language. The other language now starts to distribute their movies exposing more people who pick up that language and spreading from there.

        Sure, that can take a few generations. It’s not like everybody just decided to switch right now

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      • EhList@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Right now there is no reason to believe that will change but we cannot predict the future. Thus far no language has remained the common one permanently.

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  • droans@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The term lingua franca derives from Mediterranean Lingua Franca (also known as Sabir), the pidgin language that people around the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean Sea used as the main language of commerce and diplomacy from late medieval times to the 18th century, most notably during the Renaissance era. During that period, a simplified version of mainly Italian in the eastern and Spanish in the western Mediterranean that incorporated many loan words from Greek, the Slavic languages, Arabic, and Turkish came to be widely used as the “lingua franca” of the region, although some scholars claim that the Mediterranean Lingua Franca was just poorly used Italian.

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    • Llewellyn@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I know. Joke is frenchies see their language on the highest pedestal possible. And additional joke is in similarity of words “French” and “franca”.

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• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Erm. English is the world language. In science and all international bodies. Why wouldn’t we use English to communicate with people from other countries when not at least one person speaks the native language of the other (yes, that happens, and then we don’t speak English)?

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