Re: A language by any other name
On 27 Sep 2001, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2001-09-27T00:32:08Z, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> > ...the French thinking that French is the lingua franca of the world. It's
> > only wishful thinking.
> >From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary:
> Lingua Franca \Lin"gua Fran"ca\ (l[i^][ng]"gw[.a]
> fr[a^][ng]"k[.a]). [It., prop., language of the Franks.]
> In a literal sense, French *is* the lingua franca of the world.
Except that the Franks were a Germanic people who spoke a language that had
more in common with Old High German than French... :)
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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