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.