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culebrilla
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Message 17 of 18

16 January 2014 at 12:38am | IP Logged

Medulin wrote:

renaissancemedi wrote:

Or the language of love.

That's Brazilian Portuguese >)

+1. Sounds great! :) One of the few languages that I would say that I actually care about how "good" it sounds. Most languages sound just as good as any other to me. But Brazilian Portuguese is SWEET.

They do call it "the sweet language."
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16 January 2014 at 1:19pm | IP Logged

1e4e6 wrote:

My grandmother grew up in one of the outposts of the British Empire at its height, and
she said that the lingua franca was French. She even learnt years of it during
secondary school, despite France having probably half the size of Britain's global
empire.

Yes, French was a Lingua Franca for the early part of the 20th century. European political gatherings were conducted in French and when Britain declared war on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the official letter was typed in French.

Even today, French remains (in theory at least) the official language of the Olympic Games and clings on in the Eurovision Song Contest.
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