I love that English is the lingua franca and that the phrase "lingua franca" is well understood in English, enough to be legitemately "an english word" (so to s

I love that English is the lingua franca and that the phrase "lingua franca" is well understood in English, enough to be legitemately "an english word" (so to speak). The whole "we have a word for that" carries the seeds of it's own destruction. English does too: it's the same word.