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A comment on Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words. Parent comment
Like we say "it was a bloody Sunday" to generically mean a massacre.
"Lingua franca" was a language, did you know that?
> That phrase is as English as the word tomato today.
It has been at least since the XI century. Long before tomatoes were a thing in England.
> English is the most international language in the world
Which English?
Because British and American English aren't.
And probably right now Mandarin Chinese is even more business oriented than English.
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Like we say "it was a bloody Sunday" to generically mean a massacre.
"Lingua franca" was a language, did you know that?
> That phrase is as English as the word tomato today.
It has been at least since the XI century. Long before tomatoes were a thing in England.
> English is the most international language in the world
Which English?
Because British and American English aren't.
And probably right now Mandarin Chinese is even more business oriented than English.