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@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 "bom
