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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Pidgin?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Not quite the same either :)
    a grammatically simplified form of a language, typically English, Dutch, or Portuguese, some elements of which are taken from local languages, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Well how about speaking loudly and slowly with exaggerated hand actions?

    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That is a much-used option ;)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    No.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    ??
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    B3 said:
    I don't think that's quite the same.
    " A 'lingua franca' is any language that is used as a medium of communication among peoples who don't share a common language."
    But that's what English has become.    I heard two guys speaking English to each other because neither of them was English and neither knew where the other guy was from.  Took about 5 mins of conversation before they found out they were both Iranian and both spoke Pashto from birth.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Yes. They were using English as a lingua franca because they didn't realise that they shared a common language.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    No.   They were using English as a common language because they knew they would both speak that no matter where they came from.  English is the language everyone now learns in order to speak to everyone else on the planet.

    I'm not understanding the confusion.

    I read somewhere that about 90% of what is on the internet is written in English.  So it's becoming common to everyone.   Why use French? Which is common to relatively few people.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Have a look here. It might explain it better than I have.
    https://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/20-best-foreign-loanwords-in-english/

    In London. Keen but lazy.
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