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...Which languages other than Greek and Latin have been taught for centuries in European universities or used as the lingua franca of its literary and theological heritage? Malcolm JackLondon N19, UK...
...The lingua franca in the Madrid start-up scene is Spanish; in Barcelona, it’s English....
...With this year’s “rebuilding trust” as the World Economic Forum’s theme, generic management-speak could indeed be thought of as the lingua franca at Davos....
...Welcome back to Lingua Marina. Hey, guys. Welcome to Silicon Valley Girl. I made my first video back in 2014. I was trying to apply to American universities....
...Adorable fluffy felines represent a digital lingua franca, saturating our daily lives via viral clips, memes, emojis, GIFs and filters....
...Even his fellow heads of state did not echo that call and no one expects the dollar to be undermined any time soon as the lingua franca of global money....
...Whereas once it was almost a secret code in the queer community, now it is a lingua franca of fashion, advertising and even art. Towards the end of Camp!...
...One of the first things Constellation did, intending to scale up Lingua Franca’s output, was to serve notice on the rabble of young winemakers taking up space in their winery....
...They call themselves “interpreters” — a go-between for designers and chemists, offering a lingua franca for each....
...Solid dub-reggae rhythms link the diverse array of singers like a musical lingua franca. A project designed to expand dub’s diversity also emphasises its diffusion far beyond its Jamaican birthplace....
...Greek remained the lingua franca during Roman times, and there are still communities in Sicily that speak a Greek dialect....
...Swaggart features on Lingua Ignota’s Sinner Get Ready, sampled giving a tearful televised confession in 1988....
.... ($, New Yorker) -- Today’s faux pas, tomorrow’s lingua franca. ($, NYT) -- How the EU destroyed Italian democracy. -- Fiscal inflation. -- Lab-grown halal meat. -- London’s worst Tesco. -- A new...
Hard to believe, but this global meeting point of the Americas used to be a sedate Southern resort — before morphing at speed into a multicultural metropolis where Spanish is the lingua franca
...English remains the lingua franca, however, especially in high-tech businesses, which also ask “managers from China or Taiwan to learn Vietnamese”, he added....
...In common with other new ventures in the city, the lingua franca of the business is a mix of English and Spanish. “Barcelona should aspire to be the European tech hub,” he says....
...He described the donation as a “gift to current art lovers, and future generations of aspiring art lovers”, for whom the “lingua franca” of art was “needed more than ever in these dire circumstances”....
...Justerini & Brooks now imports the wines of Walter Scott, Berry Bros & Rudd has Lingua Franca and Corney & Barrow has 00 Wines....
...English remains the lingua franca for large parts of the business world, with the English Proficiency Index estimating that 2.5bn people use the language, of whom only 400mn are native speakers....
...We could be anywhere in the Mediterranean but for the fact that the signs are in Turkish, English and the lingua franca of holiday resorts, German....
...This isn’t down to the tech (or even the platform’s standardisation of payment instructions into a convenient lingua franca). Rather it reflects the balance of power in global finance....
...Under its constitution, South Africa recognises 11 official languages and, while English is the lingua franca of business, politics and South Africa’s internet, it is far from the most widely spoken....
...I would actually hope that we’re moving beyond like English being a lingua franca . . . Lilah Raptopoulos Yes. Arwa Haider . . . of pop music....
...I’d also have a hard time giving up cashmere sweaters by Leret-Leret and Lingua Franca, custom-embroidered with clever symbols or sayings. I have a collection of more than 200 pairs of cufflinks....
...There is just one threat to English as the world’s lingua franca, and it is not Mandarin. It is not even the (overrated) potential of translation technologies....
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