Re:What Is Anglish?
by Karrot_Kream on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:25PM
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Yup that's where the term "lingua franca" comes from.
Actually, lingua franca originally refereed to a pidgin bridge language (also called Sabir) in use mostly by sailors and traders in the Mediterranean Basin. While it also borrowed from French, it was mostly based on Italian dialects from what I read. [0]
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca
Re:What Is Anglish?
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:07AM
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The "Franks" in lingua franca refers to all Western Europeans collectively, it's not actually about the French.
Etymologically. In the last 2-3 centuries it was used referring to French.
Re:What Is Anglish?
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:05PM
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Sure, but the name of the language (lingua franca) originates much earlier, when it referred to (Western) Europeans in general.
And in other areas, like the arts (from painting and photography to film and the novel), legal, and political terms. That's because France in those past 2-3 centuries was a huge power in Europe and globally, along with the UK).
For France, this ended with WWI and was a done deal with WWII but there was still some momentum up to the 70s.
So it was kind of like countries today copy US terms, fashion, politics, music, etc.