If english is not lingua franca...

Just some thought. English has been undisputedly gain status as world's lingua franca today, thanks to majority of english-speaking countries that won the WWII, the use of english has gained widespreaded use also due to western's culture export.

Anyway, sometime I imagine how the world goes if other language becomes a lingua franca. Perhaps you consider english, though gramatically easier than its other germanic families, its pronunciation is bizzarre and unexpectable. IMO, the use of engrish in east asian countries, for artistic purpose also marked implicit inferiority complex of asian people to western. I wonder if the story would be different if Chinese mandarin become world's lingua franca. Perhaps we will find situation where a lot of people use a lot of kanji everywhere.

In my opinion, perhaps Latin should be considered to return its status world's lingua franca once again, it was once de facto language in europe, though it's gramatically more difficult, it could help people to learn language other romance language better.

I know the question sounds silly, but I hope people would voice their opinion here, since our background and languages we mastered are different. Perhaps you have some languages in the mind that also suitable to become lingua franca? share your thought about it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

yes, I heard that one too. Interestingly, esperanto is being taught to introduce the students toward other language because the grammar actually combines several european languages. Most notably, the loanwords are heavily borrowed from either english, french, spanish, or german.

I think esperanto is quite promising, if we compare it to latin, perhaps we could learn it faster, but the question is, who wants to learn constructed language with small amount of speakers anyway? (I dont know whether it's part of curriculum in the countries where the language has been used widespread, such as France, Germany, or Spain)

I guess esperanto has long way to go to gain more importance in the future.

How ya doing, buddy?

India and... Netherlands maybe? I think Dutch is very open to other language, and most of them could speak flawless english.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.