Instead, he offers a more radical proposition: English will be the last lingua franca.

相反，他提出了一个更为激进的观点：英语将成为最后的世界通用语。

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Improvements in translation technology will not change this by making it less important to learn second languages at all, despite claims such as Nicholas Ostler's in The Last Lingua Franca.

翻译技术的改善使得学习第二语言不再那么重要，但这并不会导致任何改变，尽管存在如nicholas Ostler在《最后的通用语言》(The Last Lingua Franca)中所声称的。

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Classy magazines have had a very rough go of late: Talk, Industry Standard, Mademoiselle and Lingua Franca have all folded in the last year.

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