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by drewk
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10/1/01 10:52:57 AM
10/2/01 10:19:52 AM
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New 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]
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OT: re 'Lingua Franca'
Now that the defacto language of international business and plitics 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. -- Thomas Friedman
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Post #11,130
by kmself
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10/1/01 4:20:18 PM
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New Re: OT: re 'Lingua Franca'
Consider: a latin phrase for use of French now refers to English....

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                             OT: re 'Lingua Franca' (edit is for a typo) - (drewk) - (1) - Oct. 2, 2001, 10:19:52 AM EDT
                                 Re: OT: re 'Lingua Franca' - (kmself) - Oct. 1, 2001, 04:20:18 PM EDT

Many of the dead have finished being dead without the assistance of medical staff or fancy equipment.
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