Maluvia wrote: ...
Well, there's a reason they call it the linuga-franca. French once was, and may yet be again.
nitpicking: don't think 'franca' stands for french, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca (I'm not 100% sure whether you were implying franca stands for french or simply that franch was lingua franca once)
erik
