The development of English into the world's lingua franca suggests that spelling is not an insuperable barrier.
Some 28% of Italians speak the world's lingua franca, a figure that the government thinks is too low.
In Brussels, the bureaucratic heart of the EU, French--at the insistence of the French government--is still the lingua franca.
But they are citizens of Russia, and Russian is the lingua franca among the various republics along the country's southern border.
As Asian business takes to the Internet, English may even lose its place as the unchallenged lingua franca of the web.
MapReduce is becoming the lingua franca of data scientists, just as SQL has emerged as a standard for database queries, Argyros says.
In many villages people speak Kinyarwanda rather than the lingua franca, Swahili.
The Oscars (airing on ABC Sunday evening) are a major story, here and around the globe where movies are increasingly the lingua franca.
The only hope for English to remain the lingua franca till deathbed is a peaceful world and lots of love from non-native speakers.
Classy magazines have had a very rough go of late: Talk, Industry Standard, Mademoiselle and Lingua Franca have all folded in the last year.
Dolan has acknowledged his Italian isn't strong seen as a handicap for a job in which the lingua franca of day-to-day work is Italian.
But in the lingua franca of today's social-media industry that doesn't matter as much as user engagement and the ability to access those users' personal data.
Guiding us with his machete, he pointed out tiny owls, arachnids that could piggy-back my kids to school, bizarre animals that only have names in the lingua franca.
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English remains the lingua franca and the only official tongue.
French used to be the lingua franca for most EU business, but with the expansion of the EU to 25 member states, English is becoming even more dominant.
At the same time, the World Wide Web Consortium is working on a new version of HTML, the lingua franca in which billions of Web pages are written.
's Mac operating system have had to come to grips with the fact that the platform they love so much is not the lingua franca of the computing world.
Bhan is pushing abroad for other reasons: Twenty percent of his business comes from 60 countries other than the U.S. where English is becoming the lingua franca of medical schools.
The rise of English as a lingua franca will not necessarily do much to diminish arguments over national languages within or between countries, in places like the Balkans or the Baltic states.
Bhan is pushing abroad for other reasons: Twenty percent of his business comes from 60 countries -- other than the U.S. -- where English is becoming the lingua franca of medical schools.
This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.
Also, offering automatic captioning for English first did make sense because English is the lingua franca of the internet, so they probably had heaps of data about it and the demand for autocaptioning in it was great.
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Even if you don't understand the lyrics, you can hear the influence of hip-hop and rap, which have become the lingua franca of Afro-Latinos, African-Americans and just about anyone under the age of 25 in the rest of the world.
Initially seen as a way to enhance web pages, Java was soon talked of as a lingua franca for computers: small programs, called applets, written in Java would be distributed via the Internet and downloaded to run on any computer, regardless of operating system.
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