FW: Answering the phone WAS: Licensing snafu

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:54:27 -0700):

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007, Ron Kracht wrote:
>> I don't think the numbers are going to make any difference. The dominant
>> culture in this country speaks English. The language of the academic
>> world is English, the language of the business world is English....
>
> English is the ``Lingua Franca'' all over the world (much to the
> dismay of the French as French was originally the universal
> language -- after Latin that is :-).

And, given that "Lingua Franca" is Italian for "the French language"
(okay, it's really the Frankish language, a precursor to French), I
think we have an eclectic phrase here.

"English is the new French."

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