> Try asking _anyone_ who doesn't have English as their first language in a serious context how they feel about their language I asked myself, and I said; 'meh

> Try asking _anyone_ who doesn't have English as their first language in a serious context how they feel about their language I asked myself, and I said; 'meh'. Admittedly I speak English better than my first language now, and I'm also being deliberately facetious, but it's also true that I don't much care about my first language. > Bear in mind one day English will no longer be the lingua franca as demonstrated by the word for lingua franca. ;) I used to think it was hilariously ironic too, but then I stumbled on the actual etymology one day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca?oldformat=true#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca?oldformat=true#E...