> English is often called French (lingua Franca - the language of the Franks). It is routinely used as an intermediary language because it is very simply struct

> English is often called French (lingua Franca - the language of the Franks). It is routinely used as an intermediary language because it is very simply structured and can take quite a lot of abuse and still remain intelligible. You didn't even for a second stop to think why English language uses a Latin term to call a language the language of the Francs? Latin was the original "lingua franca" of Europe. For historical and traditional reasons. Then France was the largest, baddest, most powerful country, and everyone wanted to be like France. But in the past several centuries Britain and then the US were the biggest, baddest, most economically powerful countries, and it's beneficial to know and speak English. People didn't use Latin or French because they were simpler. People don't use English because it's "simpler than French". If that was the case, everyone would've switched to Turkish, for example, as it's very, very, very simple compared to any European language. Chinese was the lingua franca of Asia for centuries before English even became a thing in the 19th century. Because it was the biggest baddest empire around. Don't get too surprised if Chinese becomes the lingua franca of the world 20 years from now.