Dragaera

A Linguistic Note

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Wed Dec 15 13:57:56 PST 2004

erik at debill.org wrote:

> I once had a hilarious conversation with a young man from France who
> was desperately trying to find out what hotel my sister was staying in
> on a visit to Paris.  He'd somehow managed to track down her home
> number in Texas.  The catch was that neither of us spoke the other's
> language and we had to use Spanish.  It worked, but the whole
> situation was pretty funny.

Thinking back to Steve's "Ford" - The  lingua franca used to be Latin.  Now
it's English.