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it's quite ironic that English became the lingua franca
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Yeah, furthermore (from Wikipedia):
So if anything, it’s (roughly) Italian, Greek, and Arabic for “language of the Western Europeans”.
Yes, because that used to be the situation back then. It's whatever language all involved parties speak. So English being a lingua franca doesn't even contain trace amounts of irony.
It's the de facto lingua franca, not a. And the words are Italian, which is ironic
That's not irony. That's a coincidence.
Sigh.