Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.

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essell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I suspect if China wanted to impose a Lingua Franca on the world, they’d be pragmatic about it and invent something the world could learn and accept.

They seem to be very outcome focused rather than worrying about how they get there.

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