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Which Lingua Franca are on the rise ?

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dissident
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03 November 2010 at 7:28am | IP Logged 
Wikipedia has a pretty good page on which languages were historically Lingua Franca. I am more
interested, however, in the future.

I guess we could agree Mandarin is on the rise. But are there any other trends ?

In light of computer translation technologies I am leaning towards an approach where the goal would be
Fluency in few very important languages over cursory knowledge in many. Let the software sort out the
"loose
change".

Does this make sense ?

My mind instinctively is trying to do the opposite. It keeps trying to go after all languages at the same time.
I need some rationale to prioritize and stay focused.

Edited by dissident on 03 November 2010 at 7:37am

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Doitsujin
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03 November 2010 at 8:46am | IP Logged 
There is already a very long thread about this topic that you may want to check out: Is Chinese going to be the lingua franca?
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03 November 2010 at 9:18am | IP Logged 
I'll close this thread. Follow the link that Doitsujin provided if you would like to discuss this topic.


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