There were many lingua francas of which French was supposedly the first global lingua franca. That changed and it became English (from what I understand). We will probably see another language become the lingua franca, so my question is: should it be English? Are there better candidates out there? Why / why not?

    • Don Antonio Magino@feddit.nlEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      The researchers themselves however also make the valid point that

      Complexity in language, however, is a difficult size [standard, I presume]. For although Danish is difficult in pronunciation, it is grammatical, for example, much simpler than German and Finnish, which in turn is easier to understand than Danish.

      But I was speaking in general terms, anyway. Language, being a natural phenomenon, of course has lots of variation.