[OT] The Fall of the British Empire???

[Richmond Mathewson]

Actually Lingua Franca was a pidgin developed by slavers and pirates to
communicate.

English is not a pidgin, as it is the end result of a creolisation between
Anglo-Saxon and Norman French.

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 16:45 Craig Newman via use-livecode, <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> “... the bulk of Europe used French as the common language.”
>
> That is where the term “Lingua Franca” came from. Before that in Europe,
> which was the center of the universe, learned people used Latin. Just ask
> Newton or any cleric.
>
> English took over when the world got smaller. The US was the "bomb" in
> 1945, (can’t wait to see how that comes back) and ten years later consumed
> nearly a third of the planets energy. That plus Rock and Roll made English
> the only language that made sense.
>
> Still does.
>
> Craig
>
> > On Nov 20, 2023, at 4:29 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >  the bulk of Europe used French as the common language.
>
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