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Re:What Is Anglish? by Karrot_Kream on Monday February 27, 2023 @11:25PM (#34965609)
Yup that's where the term "lingua franca" comes from.
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Re:What Is Anglish? by mkotowski on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @12:07AM (#34965850)
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

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Re:What Is Anglish? by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @02:07AM (#34966511)
The "Franks" in lingua franca refers to all Western Europeans collectively, it's not actually about the French.
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Re:What Is Anglish? by coldtea on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:10AM (#34967656)
Etymologically. In the last 2-3 centuries it was used referring to French.
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Re:What Is Anglish? by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:05PM (#34974086)
Sure, but the name of the language (lingua franca) originates much earlier, when it referred to (Western) Europeans in general.
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