English as a lingua franca

[Bruce Dykes]

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From: "Paul Frank" <paulfrank at POST.HARVARD.EDU>
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Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 01:09
Subject: English as a lingua franca


> This is from the Guardian, a British newspaper:
>
>
> In fact, it is even claimed that a European variety of English, sometimes
> labelled "Euro-English", is in the process of evolving to serve as a
> European lingua franca. As yet, however, this new variety of English has
not
> been described, largely because it is at such an embryonic stage in its
> evolution. All we can say with any degree of certainty is that English as
a
> lingua franca in Europe (ELFE) is likely to be some kind of
European-English
> hybrid which, as it develops, will increasingly look to continental Europe
> rather than to Britain or the United States for its norms of correctness
and
> appropriateness.

That name will never do...there's only one name such a language could have:

Koinglish

bkd