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That is a fine thing, but it is not the reason English is the lingua franca.
by pg 17y ago
That is a fine thing, but it is not the reason English is the lingua franca.
- astine 17y agoDoesn't that have something to do with the British Empire?
- mechanical_fish 17y agoYep. Guns. Lots and lots of guns. Big ones.
- gaius 17y agoYou say that as if there were no French or Spanish Empires.
- wheels 17y agoNo, actually. Well, not directly anyhow. English became the lingua franca post-WW2, mainly because of the powerful position of the English speaking countries militarily and economically after the war.