OT: re 'Lingua Franca' (edit is for a typo)
Now that the defacto language of international business and politics seems more often to be English than French, is it time to change the phrase to 'lingua engla'?
We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists. -- [link|http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/05/opinion/BIO-FRIEDMAN.html|Thomas Friedman]
Edited by
drewk
Oct. 2, 2001, 10:19:52 AM EDT