On 27 Sep 2001, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2001-09-27T00:32:08Z, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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