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From: hinsenk@cyclone.ERE.UMontreal.CA (Hinsen Konrad)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
In-Reply-To: mgr11@cus.cam.ac.uk's message of 11 Feb 1995 15:42:23 GMT
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In article <3hilsv$cfh@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> mgr11@cus.cam.ac.uk (M.G. Rison) writes:

   Replace which other languages as lingua franca?  Most EU languages
   are not lingua franca (how do you pluralify that?).  English, perhaps

"Lingua francae". Which proves that it does pay off to study Latin ;-)

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