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?

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    12 hours ago

    G’day from Australia, please don’t cut our borderless monolingual Island off. Kiwi’s probably feel similar too.

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      11 hours ago

      Don’t kid yourself, if you would speak English over there, how come I barely understood this Australian who told me he’s been “leggin’ it barefoot since he stacked it near the servo and now he’s flat out like a lizard drinkin’ and tryin’ to find a dunny before he cops a fair dinkum blue”.

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        1 hour ago

        This is clearly fabricated, you’re missing way too many swear words.