If english is not lingua franca...

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

Bah. The point I was trying to make was that there were a lot of english words with latin origins, as you said as well x_x

There being plenty of English words with Latin origins, though, has nothing to do with how easy it would be for English speakers to learn Latin. English also has plenty of words with French origins, and still more with German origins. French and German have had larger and more direct influences on English than Latin. This influence is extended because French and German are still living languages and as such can loan out new words and expressions as needed.

This doesn't mean French and German are languages any English speaker can pick up with no problem, however. Both languages have conventions and rules that are different from English, which have to be learned and applied by minds that aren't programmed to use them naturally.

Trying to switch to Latin would run into these problems as well as the ones resulting from it being effectively dead.

While we're talking about French, there's a candidate right there. It has its own worldwide influence, and was Europe's lingua franca far more recently than Latin was.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

but since its somewhat of a 'dead' language

Fixed that for you.

Latin, as a working language, doesn't exist anymore; nobody uses it in their everyday communication. Its legacy lives on in several languages that are directly descended from it, plus several more that have been influenced by it, and it still is used but the Latin language itself has been effectively dead for centuries. Adding the words needed to make it a workable language for everyday use in the 21st century, particularly for worldwide use, would require enough work to transform it into something other than Latin.

Maybe you should look at Greek, instead.

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