| 单词 | lingua franca |
| 例句 | The songs and sounds they’ve absorbed are part of western musical style, and are now part of the musical lingua franca or the music that is “normal” for them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Mice do not speak Lapine, but there is a very simple, limited lingua franca of the hedgerow and woodland. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Few spoke English, and the lingua franca was an amalgam of many tongues known as Fanagalo. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Except that English is its chief lingua franca and Newspeak its official language, it is not centralized in any way. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I just feel more open,” Ms. Geiger said, well aware that emotional intimacy is the lingua franca of a good pop songwriting session. Teddy Geiger Tried Teen Pop Fame. Now She’s Back on Her Own Terms. 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z But her knowledge of Swahili, the lingua franca of many East African tribes, and her grasp of African traditions made her Hollywood’s go-to person on the African continent. Eva Monley, Film Location Scout in Africa, Dies at 88 2011-11-21T04:36:17Z BBC World visited the fringe and spoke to comics from across the globe to see if comedy is lingua franca. Lost in translation: Fringe comedy 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Instead the lingua franca is Tetum, an Austronesian language influenced by Portuguese. Timor-Leste: what it's like to travel in a land without tourists 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z The almighty dollar is the lingua franca of the international art market. Money-themed art collection could bring in $93 million 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z His catchphrases — “Another one,” “Bless up,” “They don’t want you to … ” — have become a lingua franca. For DJ Khaled, Snapchat Is a Major Key to Success 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Sexual vulgarity feels quaint, faux-ironic, the bland lingua franca of corporate marketing. Perspective | ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was banned 90 years ago. Now we’re — yawn — bored by obscenity. 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The lingua franca of stand-up is rife with mortal metaphors: “I died out there,” “I slayed ’em.” Nathan Lane, Hamming It Up As Few Can 2010-05-26T17:15:00Z This became part of the lingua franca of modern music. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Today that experience ends as you leave the Main Street 7 station and enter downtown Flushing, where Chinese is the new lingua franca. A World of Food, Outside the U.S. Open Gates 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Vitriol masked as jokes is wingnut's lingua franca, as is the bloviated "how dare you" response to similar swings when then punchlines are coming from the left. Science and karma: Late night comedy makes peace with joking about Trump's COVID diagnosis 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z But if there were some version of an emotional lingua franca of this age, it’s fear. Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” will keep you up at night 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Six decades later, with hip-hop now pop music’s lingua franca, bringing rap’s beats and bling back into the church might be just as subversive. Art at the Terminal and Beyond 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z It’s just as much a cliché to say that the lingua franca of fashion is froth, but as the lot gossiped and kvetched, they rarely touched on the deeper stuff. Talk Stays Light at Men’s Runway Shows, but Signs of Paris’s Sorrow Linger 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Long answer: because she lived in Seattle, “where rain was the sky’s lingua franca.” Books of The Times: A Cynical Position Overcome With Yoga 2010-12-22T23:06:18Z Danish, an often staccato language spoken by only about six million people and whose alphabet includes the letters Æ, Ø and Å, is perhaps an unlikely choice for pop’s next lingua franca. A Restless Star Makes the Case for Danish-Language Pop 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z He recognizes violence — enduring it, administering it — as the lingua franca of male communication and, as a fraternity pledge, becomes fluent in it. ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones,’ a Memoir by Charles M. Blow 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The crowd was there, in part, because the music he played was like music we already knew, the electrified blues that had become our teen-age lingua franca. B. B. King’s Inimitable Sound 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Invited abroad to discuss a commission, he worries about the flight, the taxi receipt, whether he can speak the smooth lingua franca of the international curator. Bedwyr Williams: My Bad ? review 2012-05-19T23:05:32Z She often spoke of her work in the lingua franca of the Latin Quarter avant-garde, where she knew the great intellectuals of her day, including Samuel Beckett. Andrée Putman, Global Interior Designer, Dies at 87 2013-01-21T03:48:51Z Modern Standard Arabic is very similar to Classical Arabic, the centuries-old lingua franca of the medieval Islamic world. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z We saw this recently in Staffordshire when Christopher Jones was cleared of racial abuse after claiming to be a hip-hop fan, where the word is part of the lingua franca. Why was Reginald D Hunter ever booked for the PFA awards dinner? 2013-04-30T17:26:49Z Language requirements are often minimal, English being the global art world lingua franca. Under Threat: The Shock of the Old 2011-04-15T02:50:03Z The book echoes the way gossip, the lingua franca of neighborhoods like these, functions: The reader gets an inkling of some event in one story, then sees it confirmed a dozen pages later. Garth Risk Hallberg’s Mix-and-Match Story of Suburban Ennui 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Back then, the cinema industry’s most famous “fortnight” lasted a full two weeks; the winners were announced in a brief press release the final afternoon; and the lingua franca was actually French. Cannes 2013: 20 Films for Our 40th Festival 2013-05-15T17:10:56Z In Lerici, unlike many other Riviera towns, the lingua franca is still poetic Italian. Next Stop: Lerici Lacks the International Cachet of Nearby Cinque Terre. 2010-06-16T20:05:00Z While Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca here in Taiwan, there are some dishes in Taiwan that are known exclusively by their Taiwanese Hokkien names. "Taiwanese food is an underdog": In her new cookbook, Clarissa Wei writes a love letter to Taiwan 2023-09-02T04:00:00Z Then there’s the lingua franca of social media — the like button — that’s totally discordant with death. An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z But while English may be Europe’s lingua franca, that doesn’t mean everyone you encounter will be fluent — and not everyone will understand American English. Confessions of a monoglot 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Though French is the lingua franca of Mali, the United States is popular, and English nowadays has the greater cachet here. Along the Niger River, the Beat of the Sahel 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z But on this session, recorded in the midst of a run at Birdland in New York, the band was working in its own lingua franca, basically playing a version of its live set. Unreleased Jazz Treasures Are Arriving: Here’s a Guide 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z "Yes, I did," replied the father in that gnomic fashion that is the lingua franca in limboland. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z The challenge now is making “The King’s Speech” into the lingua franca. 'King's Speech' may be recut for lower rating 2011-01-26T02:43:16Z The “totally” and “awesome” that were the high school lingua franca of the era became, in Westerberg High, the dry, “How very.” Director Michael Lehmann on why Ivanka and Kellyanne are today's "good Heathers" 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z It is a supremely girly way of easing into an interview, engaging in the female lingua franca of insistently complimenting another woman. Jennifer Aniston: 'A lot of guys are narcissists. They think every woman wants to sleep with them' 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Hip-hop is the lingua franca, and also a blooming shadow influence on the men’s wear industry writ large. Hip-Hop as Bravado and Legacy for Men’s Fashion 2012-11-14T21:50:13Z He introduced a new education system and ensured that English, not Persian, became the lingua franca. Macaulay by Zareer Masani – review 2013-07-22T09:00:00Z As she says to Sven, “I do believe that contempt is the lingua franca of our era, and on that I’ll bet we can both agree.” So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Trash talking is the lingua franca of this Trumpian moment, bullying the default tactic. Football is Trumpball Lite: Who needs Super Bowls when Trump’s real-life plays are more aggressive? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Nor is its assumption that Modern Standard Arabic is a lingua franca suitable for all forms of literature and all Arab audiences a species of Orientalism. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Already multinational in expression, English was becoming a global phenomenon with a fierce, inner multinational dynamic, an emerging lingua franca described by the historian Benedict Anderson as "a kind of global-hegemonic post-clerical Latin". A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z On the musical side Puccini’s full-throated, melodramatic and unabashedly tonal verismo style swiftly became and remained the lingua franca of American opera. When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle 2010-12-03T19:38:00Z But French’s role as the second language of the EU is assured—some old hands still prefer it as a lingua franca. English becomes Esperanto 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z For them, Globish is a default position, a progressive lingua franca, a highly informal, contagious means of communication that is universally recognised and understood. Globish is coming 2010-04-26T15:30:00Z Two weeks ago Slate posted an impressive package, “The Outrage Project,” that cast outrage as the lingua franca of our social media age. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z In other words, Globish was not just a lingua franca, it was a linguistic third force, and it was just coming into its own at the start of the third millennium. Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z The theater of raunch is part of the app’s lingua franca, as central to it as tightly coiled dance routines. ‘WAP’ Is Good, Raunchy Fun. On TikTok, It’s at Home. 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Over the last four decades, hip-hop has emerged as the lingua franca of global pop culture, a force that has gleefully imposed itself in every corner and crevice. Pitbull Moves Beyond Hip-Hop and Into the Unknown on ‘Climate Change’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z Working first in a trio and then a quartet, in both cases with Mr. Haden, they hammered out an elastic, ecstatic mode of discovery that has since become lingua franca within the postbop mainstream. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z Chaos became Stone’s lingua franca — politically and cosmically. Remembering Robert Stone 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z The decision to try to mobilise world opinion through concerts was justified, he said, because "the lingua franca of the planet is not English – it's pop music". Bob Geldof condemns lame and ineffective anti-poverty campaigners 2010-04-02T18:43:00Z Unlike other internationally successful Congolese performers, Ms. Muana sang most of her songs in Tshiluba, the native language of her Kasai tribe, rather than in French or Lingala, the Congolese lingua franca. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z By writing it in West Africa’s lingua franca - a blend of English and indigenous languages - she hopes to spread its message as widely as possible. Pidgin perfect: Slang spreads message for Nigeria's 'opera queen' 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Italian, the lingua franca of the Vatican, would become the synod's official language, he said. Pope ditches Latin as official language of Vatican synod 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z India is so disparate that cinema became the national lingua franca and its national religion. Sex, shame and Indian cinema 2010-07-22T22:23:00Z English hasn't always been the lingua franca of popular culture, and record companies often asked artists to record in foreign languages to quash rival non-English cover versions. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z In other words, its reach: it is global, treating the English language, for the first time, as a creative lingua franca as well as a commercial one. The Booker prize and the battle for supremacy in a literary awards jungle 2013-03-12T10:48:31Z The lingua franca of “Tales of Our Time” is video, but there’s one giant sculpture: a crazed industrial robot equipped with a squeegee, installed in a room-size see-through chamber. Chinese Artists Redraw Boundaries in ‘Tales of Our Time’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z It has the structure of an erotic French comedy, echoing both Feydeau’s farces and Eric Rohmer’s cerebral films, translated into the camp, flip banter that is the lingua franca of its characters. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z There was a sense that you were within the realm of the underground, and there was a particular lingua franca, and certain ways that you would shorthand things. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Music Critic’s Look Back at Formative Years in Chicago 2018-12-16T05:00:00Z In transitioning from the before times — native languages and folk song — into the lingua franca of English and musical modernism, this onstage society seems to have gained little. Review: A Composer Creates Her Masterpiece With ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z That, surely, is just a description of what used to be known as a lingua franca? Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium | Robert McCrum 2010-03-29T12:51:00Z The culture of fantasy and gameplay informs movies, television, and memes, and has become a lingua franca of communicating online. The Twenty-Five-Year Journey of Magic: The Gathering 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The base of brick reflects the fact that the material is the lingua franca of the Hamburg port. How much is a landmark worth? A visit to Herzog & de Meuron's controversial Hamburg concert hall 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This seasonal institution was founded in 1969 in the confident belief that TV was our lingua franca and the nation would join together at Christmas in a diasporic community assembled in 20m living rooms. One nation Christmas television 2010-12-20T22:00:01Z English is the world’s aspirational language, the lingua franca of international culture and commerce. Books of The Times: In ?Globish,? Robert McCrum Traces the Spread of English 2010-05-25T21:08:00Z On Monday night at the Kennedy Center, choruses from around the world showed what today’s musical lingua franca actually sounds like: loud, joyful, and slightly pop-tinged. Music is a universal language. It doesn’t sound the way you might think. 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z And Coffin, who co-directed both "Despicable Me" films, also excels at voicing the amusing polyglot nonsense language that is the essential lingua franca of Miniondom. 'Minions' has irresistible, wonky golden touch 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z I heard again and again of the curfew — a Swahili word, because it was the lingua franca there. Paul Theroux Recalls a Fear-Filled Lockdown 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z Naturally, part of me delights in the throwback lingua franca the series uses to speak to Gen Xers. Just like ’80s nerd heaven: The seductive nostalgia of “Stranger Things” — and my unexpected ambivalence 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z “The lingua franca of nonfiction filmmaking should be the language of cinema and not the language of grant applications,” she said. In the Golden Age of documentaries, the medium could use more artistry 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z “Even postcards mailed at the edge of danger rarely stray from a lingua franca of cheerfulness,” Mr. O’Brian writes. Antiques: Motown Piano Restored - Postcard Books - Film on Lynd Ward 2012-03-22T20:50:46Z It informs many of her titles, together with Afrikaans, the Coloured lingua franca. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It's a lingua franca they are accustomed to, across a wide spectrum of usage. Globish and its discontents 2010-04-12T11:56:00Z Our blank stares prompted him to switch languages yet again, this time to Sranan Tongo, the extraordinarily playful Creole language that borrows from English, Dutch and Portuguese and is Suriname’s lingua franca. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z It’s a lingua franca, based on clear and common rules: anybody who makes it to high school can learn to use the written language correctly and be broadly understood. Steven Pinker’s Bad Grammar 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z English accounts for 60 percent of world internet content and is the lingua franca of pop culture and the global economy. How the English Language Conquered the World 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It is derived from New Latin, meaning that it was not current in ancient Rome; its first recorded use was in 1539, in the Middle Ages, when Latin was the lingua franca of scientific writing. A Quid-Pro-Quo Mystery 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The title track delineates a new global class, fluent in the lingua franca of data and money. Kraftwerk at Tate Modern, night five: Computer World 2013-02-12T15:13:31Z But it was also the band whose initial run lasted 30 years, whose every performance was obsessively documented by fans and the band, and whose style became the lingua franca of countless jam bands. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Yet cartoons are today the lingua franca of art — both high and low. At satire's forefront, cartoons press against hard lines 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z And sheng, the Nairobi street slang that employs a hip-hop pastiche of puns and appropriations borrowed from Swahili and English, is the lingua franca of the city’s youth. In Nairobi, a feeling of otherness in a place he considers almost like home In those first decades, the Magnum aesthetic was one of humanistic universalism, and photography offered a lingua franca to imagine a new world. ‘Magnum Manifesto,’ a 70-Year History Lesson in Photojournalism 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In his book, Mr. Jurafsky traces the gradual fading of French as the lingua franca of “fancy” American restaurants. Decoding a Menu at Root & Bone 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z He said it likely began as workplace slang among British sailors, who, traveling abroad, encountered the lingua franca of mainland Europe — i.e. ‘Jeuje,’ ‘Zhoosh,’ ‘Zhuzh’: A Word of Many Spellings, and Meanings 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z It was a description of a lingua franca, but with a difference. A global tongue 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z There’s a reason I wrote the initial post for Twitter, where anger is lingua franca. Welcome to bee season! Women are furious, but you knew that already 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Her lingua franca, say those from the tight social circles she inhabits, is “nice.” Melania Trump, the Silent Partner 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Kramer, after all, is the classic outsider, a political and literary bomb-thrower whose fulminations against the Establishment — theater, the government, moneyed interests — are his lingua franca. ArtsBeat: A Broadway Welcome to 'Normal Heart' 2010-10-19T16:31:00Z His visionary approach to street photography became the lingua franca of social media. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Physical abuse appears to be the lingua franca of Ephesus. | 'The Comedy of Errors': Giving Shakespeare His Sombrero and Kazoo 2011-03-18T11:00:00Z It also confirms the passing of an important generation of left intellectuals, a group that both spoke the lingua franca and brought intellectual rigor to the study of popular culture. Remembering John Berger: The English art critic helped bring ideas to TV 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Yiddish is the lingua franca of many Hasidic communities, but their adherents rarely read secular works. How Yiddish Scholars Are Rescuing Women’s Novels From Obscurity 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Modern standard still works as a lingua franca, as does French in certain spheres, like the tram-lines around the city, if you’re content not to scratch the surface. How to screw up in Arabic 2012-09-07T23:30:00Z Then, as the sound of the chopper receded, it was replaced by the deliberate drumbeat of hip-hop music pouring out of loudspeakers: the lingua franca of youth cultures the world over. Within the Grand Canyon, the Lure of Havasu Falls 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z It was only under Napoleon that French became the national lingua franca. Why your next vacation should be in France 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z There are some realities you cannot theatricalize when you translate the reality to lingua franca, which is what English is for the movies. Oscar Nominees for Best Foreign-Language Film Discuss Work 2012-02-20T22:38:12Z She is supposed to be a loud-mouthed troll, which is the lingua franca of the movement, but also to remember that her role as a woman is to be accommodating, submissive and placating to men. Nancy Mace learns the lesson of Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene: MAGA is not for ladies 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z It has become the lingua franca of many local Indigenous groups, all with distinctly different language histories. Grammar Changes How We See, an Australian Language Shows 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Today I live in Taiwan, where Mandarin Chinese is the lingua franca, and fixtures of the California accent have attached itself to my Chinese. My Valley girl accent follows me wherever I go. Long live the 'likes' and 'totallys' 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Most cannabis shops, including his, now only hire employees who speak English, the lingua franca of the industry. High times in Thailand: New weed laws draw tourists from across Asia 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z They were talking in Swahili - the lingua franca in the region - and afterwards began shouting "Allahu Akbar", meaning "God is greatest". Uganda school attack: 'Gospel songs interrupted by screaming' 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z Still, though the site has made the aforementioned genres part of Internet culture’s lingua franca, its short-lived foray into original series left it with far fewer iconic titles than its competitors. The Ultimate Streaming Power Rankings 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Whining is the lingua franca of Trumpists faced with facts that run against their conspiratorial narratives, of course. As Trump's legal woes mount, Republicans prep with a new talking point: Jury verdicts don't count 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z Unlike in much of northern Europe, English is not widely used in the workplace, despite being a global lingua franca. Skilled, educated and washing dishes: how Italy squanders migrant talent 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Among the city’s waterfront walkways, palatial shopping malls and suburban cul-de-sacs, Russian is becoming a lingua franca. ‘Russia Outside Russia’: For Elite, Dubai Becomes a Wartime Harbor 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Her experience is familiar among many Moroccan families as people left Amazigh-speaking rural regions over recent decades for bigger cities where the local dialect of Arabic is the lingua franca. Morocco's Amazigh speakers fear indigenous language fading 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z This is partly a result of marriages between members of different ethnic groups, and people moving to cities, where English is the lingua franca. Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z This twisted nightmare takes a particular form in Odesa, because its lingua franca is still Russian and its Russian sympathies lingered long after Ukrainian independence in 1991. Odesa Is Defiant. It’s Also Putin’s Ultimate Target. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Baby talk may be the true lingua franca: An ambitious cross-cultural study found that “parentese,” the sing-songy way adults talk to infants, is nearly universal across the world. Your Monday Briefing 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z But family ties and the allure of a city where Spanglish is the lingua franca has nonetheless drawn many. Last year, Cubans took to the streets. Now they’re fleeing the island. 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Workers there tend to be proficient in English, the lingua franca of the company, and highly capable. Ukraine’s Highly Mobile Tech Work Force Hits the Road 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Despite English and Pidgin being the lingua franca in the ethnically diverse city of Lagos, education ministry spokesperson Ben Goong confirmed to the BBC that Yoruba would be the language of instruction in the metropolis. Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z While 'Urdu' borrowed words mostly from Persian - the elite lingua franca of medieval India - 'Hindi' took them from Sanskrit, the language of ancient Hindu texts. Why Urdu language draws ire of India’s right-wing 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Quechua was the lingua franca of the Inca Empire, which stretched from what is now southern Colombia to central Chile. Google gets more multilingual, but will it get the nuance? 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z As with Cajun French, Irish, Navajo or Okinawan, the reasons for preservation have more to do with history and heritage than practicality, when dominant languages such as English and Mandarin are increasingly the lingua franca. The quest to save Cantonese in a world dominated by Mandarin 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z Speaking one’s truth, along with radical vulnerability and empathy, are my generation’s lingua franca as we come to terms with structural failures in politics, education and identity inequalities. Review | In a relentlessly positive culture, a defense of melancholy 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "English, being the lingua franca, would always have an edge". Nigerian schools: Flogged for speaking my mother tongue 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z There’s no way for a few hit movies to supply a cultural lingua franca, given the sheer range of entertainment options and the repetitive and derivative nature of the movies that draw the largest audiences. Opinion | We Aren’t Just Watching the Decline of the Oscars. We’re Watching the End of the Movies. 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z Even so, the speech offered yet another reminder that a phrase few Westerners were familiar with before Feb. 24 — the day the war began — had become part of the allied lingua franca. Waging war, wielding words: Zelensky's speeches have made him a folk hero 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z His government’s facility with the lingua franca of the Internet doesn’t hurt either. Opinion | Ukraine is a war of the modern-day Web 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Arabic is dominant in the north, but in the west there are African languages - such as Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba - which could vie for the status of lingua franca. Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z After several years of grappling with an assortment of racial controversies, the N.F.L. likely wanted credit for showcasing Black music — especially hip-hop, the lingua franca of American pop culture — this prominently. Rap Takes Over Super Bowl Halftime, Balancing Celebration and Protest 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z As in many sports, and plenty of other fields, Alpine skiing has a lingua franca — words and phrases that allow folks from various places to communicate in a shared language. EXPLAINER: ‘Grip,’ ‘chatter,’ other Olympic ski racing lingo 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z It is the lingua franca of Muslims around the world, providing a common link among disparate languages and cultures. Are Better Things Coming? Inshallah. 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z That bad faith is the lingua franca of fascism is not a new observation. Republican voters don't actually "believe" the Big Lie about January 6 — they're in on the con 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z "If East Africa does more to promote the learning of Swahili in other regions we could get somewhere, but I don't foresee it as a lingua franca for the whole continent." Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z That’s partly a holdover from France’s colonial domination of the region, which left behind a lingua franca and a common currency still backed by French reserves. Africa’s rising cities Five hundred years ago, Quechua was the lingua franca of the Inca Empire, which stretched from what is now southern Colombia to central Chile. Quechua endures in Peru despite centuries of discrimination 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z As of August 2021, it has more than 120,000 editors who, thanks to the language's status as a lingua franca, come from a diversity of geographic and cultural backgrounds. Wikipedia has a language problem. Here’s how to fix it 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Catchphrases like "great replacement" or "white genocide" easily cross the boundaries Scaminaci describes, as part of their lingua franca. The dark history of the "Great Replacement": Tucker Carlson's racist fantasy has deep roots 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z And though it has been spoken about before as an alternative on the continent to English, French or Portuguese as a lingua franca, or as a commonly understood language, there is now a renewed impetus. Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z The first sign something wasn't right was when the Afar authorities, who offered us the interviews, insisted we conduct them in Amharic - Ethiopia's lingua franca - and not their native language, Tigrinya. Tigray crisis: Ethiopian teenagers become pawns in propaganda war 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z They also frowned on her using Pidgin, which is widely spoken in Nigeria as a lingua franca. Africa's lost languages: How English can fuel an identity crisis 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z He also said the Tanzanian president was a champion for African culture and traditions, especially the use of Swahili, East Africa's lingua franca, throughout the continent. John Magufuli: African leaders mourn former Tanzania president 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Our neighbours in Tanzania are supposed to be the most proficient speakers of this language used as a lingua franca by around 100 million people across East Africa. How the 'king' of Swahili writing inspired me 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z And despite Mandarin being the lingua franca, there are more than 200 dialects spoken across China. The coronavirus panic is turning the UK into a hostile environment for east Asians | Sam Phan 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z “Stops became the lingua franca of the department; this was the way that police officers gained currency,” said Jeffrey Fagan, a Columbia Law School professor who was an expert witness in the 2013 case. Why the Legacy of Stop-and-Frisk Still Threatens Bloomberg 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z For a long time, the supremacy of English as the de facto European lingua franca seemed excessive to me. It’s not just British leavers – the rest of Europe is responsible for Brexit, too | Eric Jozsef 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z But they do not possess the assumption of lingua franca that “Little Women” is given in cultural conversations. Opinion | The Bearable Whiteness of ‘Little Women’ 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z One is securely storing cryptographic information in JavaScript, the lingua franca of the web. Instagram messages on the web could pose an encryption challenge 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Now mental illness - depression in particular - is part of our lingua franca. How one book changed the way we talk about depression | Meghan O'Rourke 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z On Monday the 65-year-old Luo delivered a short statement to reporters in Mandarin – not the city’s lingua franca Cantonese. China's new top Hong Kong official hopes city will return to 'right path' 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z As it is so well-established and widespread, I believe it is likely to be used as a global lingua franca for some time. Will Brexit spell the end of English as an official EU language? | Jane Setter 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z But Diné scholars suggest that it was the merging of various indigenous groups in the Southwest that produced the Navajo people, with Diné Bizaad emerging centuries ago as a regional lingua franca. Navajo Country Music Pays Tribute to ‘Indian Cowboys’ and Outlaw Legends 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Bland self-acceptance is the lingua franca of the modern pop star. Melanie C: 'I've had an incredible career. It's time I accepted myself' 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z All were written in—or have been translated into—English: globalization’s lingua franca. The Art of War in “Theater of Operations” 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But if you share an imperial past with the US to the extent that English is your nation’s lingua franca as a result, then it is somehow less authentic to speak it. An Oscars ban for a Nigerian film shows the Academy still doesn’t get it on race | Afua Hirsch 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The most elaborate concern tone—specifically, the difference between the informal style that is the lingua franca of the Web and the formal writing style preferred in professional settings, such as in job applications. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z We are also overlooking the fact that India was quite important in the eastern world, and Sanskrit was pretty much the lingua franca of the first millennium A.D., because of the influence of Buddhist thinking. Amartya Sen’s Hopes and Fears for Indian Democracy 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The inside-out aesthetic spread to many arts, notably music and dance, and remains a tacit lingua franca of curated exhibitions to this day. Richard Serra Will Jolt You Awake 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Sometimes, as we talk, he dives into the opaque lingua franca of Strasbourg and Brussels - directives, recommendations and binding legislative acts. Why the doctor of Lampedusa changed jobs 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z Among climate scientists, the lingua franca is Fortran: speedy, but — with roots dating to the 1950s — not terribly exciting. Julia: come for the syntax, stay for the speed 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z English is now the international underworld’s lingua franca. Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld 2019-07-04T04:00:00Z “It has become this lingua franca between lots of different people that are into different stuff.” 'It's universal': Why the Killers' Mr Brightside will be this year's Glastonbury anthem 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z English is generally the lingua franca on tour, but the lone Grand Slam tournament held where that's not the primary language is proud of the distinction. What's in a name? You say French Open; I say Roland Garros 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z English is generally the lingua franca on tour, but the lone Grand Slam tournament held where that’s not the primary language is proud of the distinction. What’s in a name? You say French Open; I say Roland Garros 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z But English is the lingua franca in most labs across the EU. Europe is a top destination for many researchers 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z But French is adapting to the reality of being a second or third language for most of its speakers in Africa, boosting its role as a lingua franca rather than a native language for most. Why the future of French is African 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Everyone knows English is the lingua franca of pop music. She loves you… sí, oui, ja: how pop went multilingual 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z This narrative would become the lingua franca of the entire conservative movement and envelop the Republican Party, thus enabling Donald Trump to use its narrative and code words to a knowing audience. After Mueller, Donald Trump's "political warfare" enters a dangerous new phase 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z It is hard to place the exact moment when “bottle” became such an overused part of football’s lingua franca but nowadays it is hard to get through a weekend without several cases. Premier League: fight for top four is on – just don’t mention the b-word 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z That means that while the customers are brown, English is the lingua franca and the television flashes CNN instead of Univisión. What we’re into: Chicano egg-breakfast bliss at La Carreta in East L.A. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z What Caramanica noticed was a fundamental change to the idea that English is pop’s lingua franca. Pop 2.0: how globalised music created a new kind of star 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z For centuries, the lingua franca of much music was Latin. She loves you… sí, oui, ja: how pop went multilingual 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z “English is a lovely lingua franca for our planet, but if you put a soccer ball on the ground and kick it toward someone, they understand they need to kick it back,” he continues. This game self-destructs in 24 hours: The joy of fleeting play on global site Meditations 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z James and his mother have never spoken directly about the essay, but she texts him all day long on WhatsApp, speaking a maternal lingua franca of viral videos and Christian memes. Why Marlon James Decided to Write an African “Game of Thrones” 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z "A rat" is how he described his former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen, deploying the lingua franca of the Mafioso. How will history judge President Trump? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Koine is the common tongue, like lingua franca. Mary Norris: Greek to Me 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Like many of the new, younger members of Congress for whom social media sparring is their natural lingua franca, Ocasio-Cortez fired back a swift rebuke. 'We're gonna impeach the motherfucker': the Democrats' new street fighters 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z That’s created a kind of lingua franca, a base level of understanding among a large group of people about the experience of playing the game. Fortnite was 2018’s most important social network 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Jazz fans, especially in America but in the wider world as well, are used to a level of African American grammar in their music: the lingua franca of the tradition. Review | Sons of Kemet are exploding the possibilities of jazz 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Internet banging has its own distinctive lingua franca, which Patton describes as “a combination of African American vernacular English, social-media speak and brilliant uses of punctuation and numbers”. A murdered teen, two million tweets and an experiment to fight gun violence 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z Sharma and his peers face stiff competition for careers because they attended schools where classes are taught in Hindi and because they know only a few phrases of English, the lingua franca of aspirational India. ‘We don’t have any fear’: India’s angry young men and its lynch mob crisis 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z “Monolingual fieldwork on indigenous tongues, without the reference point of a lingua franca, is harder, but it’s beautiful,” he said. The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z It is an official language in at least 59 countries, the unofficial lingua franca of dozens more. Behemoth, bully, thief: how the English language is taking over the planet 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z And it is a firm part of their culture, the lingua franca of 21st-century American childhood. Perspective | The Summer of Pale: How I lost my children to Fortnite 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The bullying was constant, abusive language the lingua franca. How Producer Jason Blum is Disrupting Hollywood 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Upon seeing foreign aid workers passing by in their Toyota Land Cruisers, some locals have taken to shouting, “Mundele Ebola!” which means “white person’s Ebola” in Lingala, Congo’s lingua franca. With Ebola at a ‘critical point’ in Congo, aid groups scramble to limit the outbreak 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z English is the world's favourite lingua franca - the language people are most likely to turn to when they don't share a first language. Can English remain the 'world's favourite' language? 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Today it is the lingua franca of the modern world. Opinion | English is no longer a monopoly of the West 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z This may be because a "lingua franca" developed in the region among seafaring, mobile people voyaging and trading across long distances. DNA sheds light on settlement of Pacific 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The BBC's expansion in Nigeria - Africa's most populous country where more than 200 languages are spoken - began last year with BBC Pidgin, which targets those who use the regional English-based lingua franca. BBC Igbo and Yoruba launched in Nigeria 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Craft beer’s once-exotic lingo is now lingua franca at the corner pub. The Craft Beer Explosion: How to Find the Brews for You 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z This language has become a kind of organisational lingua franca, used by middle managers in the same way that freemasons use secret handshakes – to indicate their membership and status. From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z It is not clear that the shift will help Kazakh supplant Russian, which remains the lingua franca and retains its protected status, to the relief of the fifth of the population who are ethnically Russian. Kazakhstan wants Kazakh written in Latin, not Cyrillic script 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z But I worry when well-intentioned people – lacking the resources to serve their students equally – decide against teaching technology, the lingua franca of our world. What should I teach my children to prepare them for jobs in their era? 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z None shared a mother tongue, so English was their lingua franca. Who is hurt by Trump's new refugee quota? People like Roqayah Mohammed | Deborah Campbell 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Wolof is the lingua franca of Senegal and also spoken in some parts of Gambia. West Africa steams over jollof rice war - BBC News 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Is populism now the lingua franca of politics so the Democrats’ only hope is to match Trump’s populism with their own? Turning off the Trump soap opera 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z Mrs Barua speaks English and Bengali and understands Hindi, a lingua franca in India. Where speaking several languages is a given - BBC News 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z In a country with more than 500 languages Pidgin English is the lingua franca. The fertile world of Nigerian patois 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Zimri-Lim and his government documented contact with foreign monarchs in an extensive library; over 22,000 tablets, mostly written in Akkadian, the ancient Near Eastern diplomatic lingua franca, were discovered. The Greatest Library Before Alexandria 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The lingua franca of the international world of tennis is, naturally, English, but that doesn’t mean things don’t get lost in translation. Wimbledon diary: women miss out on much of the Manic Monday excitement | Paul MacInnes 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z The poem suggests that Russian can serve as a lingua franca binding the diverse nations of the Soviet Union in a new communist order. Read Bolshevik poet Mayakovsky, Russia advises US - BBC News 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z In the book, McWhorter offers an explanation, a defense, and, most heartening, a celebration of the dialect that has become, he argues, an American lingua franca. The Case for Black English 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z US economic ascendancy, the rise of English as a lingua franca and postwar research funding all played a part; but the fulcrum was the autonomy and strangely effective “anarchic complexity” of the system itself. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Code, it seems, is the lingua franca of the modern economy. Where Non-Techies Can Get With the Programming 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Zhou was spared mainly because of his friendship with Zhou Enlai, by then China’s premier and who recalled the economist’s fascination with linguistics and Esperanto, the global lingua franca. Zhou Youguang, whose Pinyin writing system helped modernize China, dies at 111 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z They are a wordless lingua franca built on dirt-bike accidents and things exploding in microwaves. How Jukin Media Built a Viral-Video Empire 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Most African countries are made up of numerous different ethnic groups who do not necessarily have a lingua franca, so Pidgin has developed. Pidgin - West African lingua franca - BBC News 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Command of a country’s lingua franca opens the door to hundreds more “bilingual bachelor’s,” taught in the native language and English. A Guide to Getting a Bachelor’s Abroad 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z These shareable, sometimes pithy and often puerile units of culture have emerged as the lingua franca of the 2016 election, and have given the American people an entirely new way of articulating their beliefs. Meme warfare: how the power of mass replication has poisoned the US election 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Many loyalist protesters spoke in Mandarin — the lingua franca of mainland China — instead of the Cantonese language indigenous to Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Separatist Lawmakers Defy Banning Order 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Still, kudos to these columnists for attempting to wake our minds by expanding the lingua franca. Hats off for trying to rouse readers from the candidates’ mumbo-jumbo 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Many refugees are more comfortable texting, the lingua franca of adolescence, than talking anyway. The New High-School Outsiders 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z All this, it is hoped, will help Japan play a bigger role in a world where English is the lingua franca. Talk like a gaijin 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z There are breakups, including one on the honeymoon, and though the second season opens with them married and expecting another child, fond, and not so fond, insult remains their lingua franca. On TV, rage has become the new romance 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z In all five countries Russian remains the lingua franca. Stans undelivered 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z MEPs warn that English may no longer be the lingua franca of European business. And shut the door behind you 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z English is the lingua franca in the EU institutions and among the thousands of people—journalists, lawyers and lobbyists—who work in its surroundings. EU to Say ‘Au Revoir,’ ‘Tschüss’ to English Language 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Unsullied sneakers are important to shoe aficionados, who have developed their own lingua franca. White Sneaker Trend Puts Fashion Elite on Smudge Patrol 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Shukla struggled at first because he didn’t speak Marathi, the lingua franca of blue-collar Mumbai, but his loneliness eased after his younger brother followed him to the city. What it's like to live in the world’s fastest growing major economy 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s time to retire English as pop’s lingua franca. Emmy the Great: 'It’s time to retire English as pop’s lingua franca' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z After the war, Igbo lost its status as a lingua franca that non-Igbo people like my mother would learn. Identity 2016: Why I stopped mispronouncing my Igbo name - BBC News 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Another account using the visual lingua franca of Anonymous, called OpWhiteRose, also agitates against Trump. Anti-Trump campaign sparks civil war among Anonymous hackers 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Trump’s vitriol is making it off the campaign trail and into the lingua franca of children at an alarming rate. The ‘Trump Effect’ is contaminating our kids — and could resonate for years 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z A measure championed by a former Yahoo executive, who is now a Florida legislator, would allow students to substitute traditional foreign language studies for immersion in coding, the lingua franca of the technology era. Si or no? U.S. states debate swapping computer coding for languages 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s just the easiest, lowest lingua franca for uncommunicative men to say they love each other while drunkenly singing along to Wonderwall. Why lads’ nights out are vital | Joel Golby 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Verbal and visual puns are its lingua franca: Someone says, "I got a real bombshell for you guys," and produces a bombshell; someone says, "Grab a seat," and people pick up chairs. TBS' 'Angie Tribeca' takes the police spoof on an entertaining joy ride 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The pieces on parade were met with expressions of bewilderment and amazement in a variety of languages, though the lingua franca was the quick deployment of cellphones for photos and videos. New Dinosaur Poses Question: Does This Museum Make Me Look Fat? 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z When Paramount opens "13 Hours" on Friday, it will thus commence a tricky experiment: Can a movie about a wildly polarizing event use the Hollywood lingua franca of gun battles and sentiment to transcend politics? '13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,' from Michael Bay, revisits a battle 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Bowie is speaking the lingua franca of showbiz cockney again and it’s not dissimilar from … 7. 20 Bowie songs you don’t know - but should 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Irish pubs are the lingua franca of the bar world, understood and welcomed by conventioneers from the Midwest, foreign tourists and locals requiring a pick-me-up. Holiday shopping is hard. Here’s how to avoid doing it on an empty stomach. 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z "The lingua franca of universities and research is English and maybe 90% of Dutch people speak English to some extent," he says. UK student numbers surge in Netherlands - BBC News 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z What does the term “terrorism” mean in the lingua franca? Why white people aren’t called “terrorist”: The media accepts that “people who resort to violence are left-wing or Arab or both” 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z It made Windows, the operating system that became the lingua franca of the PC era, and it made Office, the software that made those Windows machines useful to businesses. Microsoft’s Rule-Breaking Vision of a Future With Countless Devices 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z For years, the Mohajirs had clashed with the local Sindhi population, who resented the fact that Mohajirs – who tended to be educated, and already spoke Urdu, the new lingua franca – easily slotted into government jobs. Karachi vice: inside the city torn apart by killings, extortion and terrorism | Samira Shackle 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z It’s long been the lingua franca of pop in Asia, and is no longer a rising curiosity or Internet subculture in the States. Live: BigBang explodes K-Pop convention at the Honda Center 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The current lingua franca of parenthood is a rueful sigh, a sotto voce expletive and a desperate grab for a strong drink. I really love my daughter, but I’m not supposed to talk about that 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z The men were suspected of organizing performances by groups of dancers, who performed to songs in China’s lingua franca, Mandarin. Calls For More Autonomy, Or Independence, Grow in Hong Kong 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Besides Spanish, the pope, a son of Italian immigrants, is most comfortable in Italian, which remains the lingua franca inside the Vatican. Pope Francis in other words -- delivered by his British interpreter 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z The lingua franca on the papal plane is always Italian, although sometimes a pope will answer a question in a language spoken in a destination country. Life on the Papal Beat 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z "English is not a colonial language any more, it is the lingua franca of the world." Uncommon tongue: Pakistan's confusing move to Urdu - BBC News 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z At best, that language becomes a lingua franca, as English is. Sprechen Sie power? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Vertically oriented videos are the lingua franca of at least a half-dozen social and video apps, including Snapchat, whose users watch three billion mostly vertical videos every day. Vertical Video on the Small Screen? Not a Crime 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Russian remains an officially recognized language, and it is a lingua franca inside cities. In Kazakhstan, fears of becoming the next Ukraine 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z It was like a lingua franca of evanescent mush, a meme of meaninglessness masquerading as communication and cool. Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z They speak a modern dialect of what was the lingua franca of the Assyrian Empire. Christians who use the language of Jesus being uprooted by Islamic State 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Scorn is the lingua franca of the fashion world, and it’s not surprising that West has come in for so much of it. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Kanye West 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z English is the lingua franca of the digital age, and those who use it as a second language may outnumber its native speakers by hundreds of millions. Can Dying Languages Be Saved? 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The humming command center — and the base as a whole — is a kind of low-slung, high-tech Tower of Babel, even though English, the language of aviation, is the lingua franca. Qatar's ties to militants complicate relations with U.S., neighbors 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z But IP may not matter to Uber, since the lingua franca in Silicon Valley and tech startups general is customer acquisition, and its grammar is frequency of use. The 5 Keys To Uber's Valuation 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z The French – whose language was the last viable alternative in the race to become the world’s lingua franca – are understandably sore about the triumph of English. Why Mandarin Won't Be a Lingua Franca 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Russian is the lingua franca in much of the country, and to this day Russia remains Ukraine’s largest business partner. Ukraine's People Have Spoken, Now the West must Rise to the Occasion 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Quebec, located just above New England, is the lone Canadian province where French remains the lingua franca. Canada's Laval University Shows How to Do Football Right Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Why Global Businesses Need A Language Strategy 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z He sees art less as a means of self-expression and more as a global lingua franca. @Large: Ai Weiwei takes over Alcatraz with Lego carpets and a hippie dragon 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z But the league's lingua franca was German, so by about 1610 the English actors began performing in that language using prose translations. Polish theatre dedicated to Shakespeare 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z English is the lingua franca at the site, a Tower of Babel studded with Hebrew-speaking managers from Israel, Bulgarian demolition crews, German bricklayers and African day laborers. The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany I could speak Marathi, my mother tongue, fluently and Hindi, the lingua franca of northern India, fairly comfortably. Readers who lost fluency in their language 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Q: Is it realistic for companies that choose a lingua franca to expect everyone in the organization to learn a sufficient amount of what may be a totally foreign language for them? Why Global Businesses Need A Language Strategy 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z Spanish is the lingua franca among immigrants from Latin America and dominates conversation in neighborhoods like East Harlem; Corona, Queens; and Hunts Point, in the Bronx. Immigrants Who Speak Indigenous Mexican Languages Encounter Isolation 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Appreciate That The Common Language Isn’t So Common English may be the “lingua franca,” or common language, of business, but its usage varies by country. NetAppVoice: 6 Keys To Cross-Border Teams 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z But if coding is the new lingua franca, literacy rates for girls are dropping: Last year, girls made up 18.5 percent of A.P. computer science test-takers nationwide, a slight decrease from the year before. How to Get Girls Into Coding 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z It was the lingua franca of the Roman Empire - used by the civilian administrators. What language would Jesus have spoken? 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z It was the lingua franca of the Democratic Party. A necessary investigation of Benghazi Mere annoying speech, the lingua franca of many New Yorkers, was not enough. Top Court Champions Freedom to Annoy 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It is the lingua franca of the Republican Party. Baffled by Benghazi From March 20-23, Atlanta attracted hundreds of people with diverse backgrounds who communicated in the lingua franca of Martin Gardner. Magic, Puzzles Delight Math Fans at G4G 2014-04-01T21:15:53Z Pearson was an exception, often compared favourably with Dickens, whom he loved - and he advocated film in numerous articles and public lectures, calling it the "lingua franca of the human eye". Masterpiece of silent film recovered 2014-04-02T23:45:11Z Here in the U.S., it’s why the lowly fax machine often remains the ‘lingua franca’ of health data exchange. Setting Healthcare Interop On Fire 2014-03-31T02:28:00Z But thanks to instant virality, a dance created by a few kids in Atlanta can in weeks become a lingua franca to legions of young people. Mercer, on Big Stage, Shares Joy With a Dance 2014-03-21T21:35:39Z It’s why fax machines remain the ‘lingua franca” of U.S. healthcare. Who Stole U.S. Healthcare Interop? 2014-03-17T02:54:00Z There are some obvious reasons why multinational companies want a lingua franca. Schumpeter: The English empire 2014-02-13T15:59:49Z Above the music emerged bits of accented English, the team’s lingua franca. 2013: A Look Back, and Beyond: A Celebration of Running and Diversity 2013-12-28T19:09:41Z A common lingua franca and approach for the API set if you will. Enabling Software To Eat The World, One API At A Time 2013-10-23T14:00:00Z But without a common lingua franca – this is often the baseline for IT/business interactions. Moving IT Beyond The 'Department Of No' 2013-09-27T06:07:00Z To participate in the globalized art world, artists often have to speak the lingua franca of art. | Westchester: A Review of ‘Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art,’ at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art 2013-08-31T00:00:01Z Perhaps more notorious was the introduction of the word “muppets” into the lingua franca of finance. Barry Ritholtz: How to avoid being a Wall Street muppet 2013-08-23T14:59:00Z It is run by the Vatican’s Office of Latin Letters—perhaps the only modern workplace where the language of Virgil is still the lingua franca. The revival of Latin: Resurrexit vere 2013-07-25T14:59:45Z With an increasing number of Anglophone riders and journalists on the Tour, it is perhaps not surprising that English is becoming... yes, the lingua franca of the race. A Tour de France glossary 2013-07-17T14:39:01Z Though Urdu was a lingua franca, at least in India, 150 years ago, its contemporary literature has a more specific audience. India Ink: A Conversation With: Literary Critic and Novelist Shamsur Rahman Faruqi 2013-07-17T13:11:10Z And teams with multinational rosters, seeking unity, are adopting English, not French, as their lingua franca. English Is the Force Majeure in a Changing Language Landscape at the Tour 2013-07-16T00:34:13Z On that point, one wonders if the vacation rules were as liberal in Austria under the Hapsburgs; or in France when the world’s lingua franca was still French. United States lags Europe on paid vacation time 2013-05-27T21:48:35Z It is the mother tongue for about 23% of the population and is also used as a lingua franca by many others. SA university makes Zulu compulsory 2013-05-16T13:54:19Z French science students would benefit from a better mastery of English, the current lingua franca of science, he says. Mon Dieu! Researchers Fret as France Debates More English in French Universities 2013-05-10T22:35:00Z While Japanese students rank high in international comparisons, a widespread lack of command of English, the lingua franca of international commerce and science, puts Japan at a disadvantage in the global marketplace. Japan banks on success of Abenomics 2013-04-08T08:38:49Z More significant, the ranks of ultra-Orthodox Jews, for whom it is the lingua franca, continue to mushroom. For Yiddish, a Fresh Presence Online 2013-01-27T23:48:48Z Because American science predominates, is English the lingua franca of global science? Readers Respond to "The Other 1 Percent" 2013-01-19T15:15:00.197Z After the lingua franca of science switched from German to English, the German-language literature on obesity was rarely cited. Treat obesity as physiology, not physics 2012-12-12T18:20:11.473Z Is bacon a trend, a state of mind, a sign of the times or some weird kind of cultural lingua franca? Why Won’t Bacon Go Away? 2012-12-12T12:10:13Z And 2000 years ago Britain was a colony of Rome and Latin was the lingua franca used for communication between different countries. African viewpoint: 'Thank goodness for colonialism' 2012-10-16T17:24:44Z Guiding us with his machete, he pointed out tiny owls, arachnids that could piggy-back my kids to school, bizarre animals that only have names in the lingua franca. Isolation is the New Luxe! Find It by Speedboat in the Amazon 2012-10-01T14:12:20Z Still, such gaffes are rare for Mr. Dauman, who is so articulate and cautious that even off-the-cuff conversations seem to flow in the fully formed lingua franca of corporate America. Philippe Dauman, the Man Who Would Be Redstone 2012-09-22T19:41:48Z Knowledge of English, the modern lingua franca, is the sine qua non of survival in the global economy. IHT Rendezvous: Breathing Life Into a Dead Language 2012-09-01T08:35:52Z Outside the Aquatics Centre, the family were talking difficulty factors and PBs as if was their lingua franca. London 2012: making a splash on a day to remember for diving's Team Mears 2012-08-07T20:12:53Z Why are their dialects not the lingua franca of an entire generation of young people? How Jamaica conquered the world 2012-08-04T23:04:06Z Wiggins's mastery of 's lingua franca derived partly from a morning television programme which he used to record in his flat in Nantes, but also from his widely reported talent for mimicry. Wiggins poised for triumph as French hail first British winner of the Tour 2012-07-21T23:06:49Z With courtroom deadpan delivery and forensic word-by-word deconstruction, the lingua franca of the pitch lost its pejorative power to shock, displaying instead a terrifying paucity of vocabulary possessed by our multimillionaire sports stars. John Terry trial turned court air blue 2012-07-13T13:46:14Z The statue itself is already an object of burgeoning pilgrimage for the cerebral footballing hipster, with his swag-bag of numerical certainties, his cosmopolitan lingua franca. Euro 2012: Valeriy Lobanovsky, king of Kiev who was before his time 2012-06-15T09:59:01Z While common sense dictates that aviation needs a lingua franca, a language as rich in vocabulary and nuance as English presents some challenges in aviation operations, where communication is supposed to be terse and unambiguous. On The Road: English Skills a Concern as Global Aviation Grows 2012-05-21T23:23:57Z Beneath this publishing boom are demographic changes, rising literacy and the increase of Indians speaking English, the lingua franca of economic growth. India Ink: As Book Sales Grow, Publishers Flock to India 2012-04-24T08:33:31Z Vernacular Hindostani has no literature of its own, but as the lingua franca now to be described it has a large one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z I spoke this in Hindusthani, which, as the lingua franca of the greater part of India, I thought was most likely to be understood by the majority of my female audience. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z Chinese restaurants serve up the region’s cuisine, and the lingua franca in many Chinatowns in Spain is the rough Qingtian dialect. For Spain, an Economic Lifeline from China 2012-02-23T22:00:09Z After the two-and-a-half hour hearing, Al Murray, who compered a fundraising concert to cover Chambers' legal expenses, said Twitter users accept such messages as a "lingua franca" even if they are bad jokes. Judgment reserved in Twitter airport threat appeal 2012-02-08T15:57:46Z Hindustani, a peculiar and important form of Hindi—now a kind of lingua franca for the whole of India. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z From here it became the lingua franca of the Mogul camp and was carried everywhere in India by the lieutenants of the empire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" 2012-04-04T02:00:56.447Z Formerly the lingua franca of the upper, or educated, classes was Persian, of the lower ones Urdu—the kind of Hindustani spoken by the Mohammedan, and afterwards by the English army. Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life 2012-01-15T03:00:15.917Z Speaking in lingua franca, I replied that I had already been ransomed, and that I intended to embark on the morrow upon a French ship. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z For years, the Web’s lingua franca was English. Ventures: Everyone Speaks Text Message 2011-12-09T16:57:19Z He had picked up the lingua franca of the islands rapidly. White Fire 2011-11-21T03:00:15.067Z All Tupi Indians spoke dialects of one language, which the Jesuit missionaries soon reduced to grammatical and literary form, and which became a lingua franca that was understood from the Plate to the Amazon. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z It is for this reason that the English language seems destined to become, if not the “universal language,” at least the lingua franca of the world. Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery 2011-10-09T02:00:29.740Z He also objected to the use of Punjabi as the lingua franca in the temple. In Italian Heartland, Indians Keep the Cheese Coming 2011-09-07T21:10:33Z Mr Crystal reckons that it is only a matter of time before automatic machine translation becomes so sophisticated that the language of Bagehot loses its role as lingua franca. Invented languages: Tongues and grooves 2011-08-03T19:17:45Z Like it or not, multi-touch gestures are the lingua franca of Lion. Mac OS X Lion: in-depth review with pictures 2011-07-20T14:00:00Z Perhaps that’s why the tavern’s lingua franca relies so heavily on numerals. | Washington Heights: A Bar That Counts on Its Regulars 2011-04-10T00:00:09Z But inside the classroom it could be anywhere in the academic world, with English as the lingua franca and a multicultural group appropriately enough discussing multiculturalism. Knowledge economy 2011-03-09T00:19:00Z A Turkish religious movement operates 19 schools in the region, educating 5,500 students, Arabs, Turkmens and Kurds mingling in a lingua franca of English. Resurgent Turkey Flexes Its Muscles Around Iraq 2011-01-05T01:40:18Z Choosing your words carefully to produce the desired response in an interlocutor is, after all, the lingua franca of diplomacy. WikiLeaks Lesson: Deception Part of Middle East Diplomacy 2010-12-01T18:25:00Z But then doublespeak is the lingua franca of the fight game – not that Chisora is complaining about a deal that could deliver not just one Klitschko but both of them. Prestige is the driving force for Chisora 2010-10-21T23:06:00Z More than any other tongue, English is indisputably the world's lingua franca, so to speak. English doesn't need help from Republicans 2010-08-19T21:43:00Z At NGT the lingua franca is Hebrew, but the coffee is strictly Arabic. In Israel, Commerce amid Conflict 2010-08-15T09:15:00Z French was once the unchallenged lingua franca of European integration. Homework for E.U.'s Top Diplomat This Summer 2010-07-30T19:22:00Z Obviously a grasp of local languages is a big advantage in mainland Europe, "but UK graduates are lucky in that English is still the lingua franca of business," says Ripmeester. Graduates look overseas as jobs dry up 2010-07-09T23:01:00Z Beyond being their version of Red Barber or Ernie Harwell, with his voice forming the soundtrack of their youth, he helped teach them the game in words and phrases he translated into their lingua franca. Expos? Voice Is Still Heard in Canada, in French 2010-06-19T18:05:00Z XML is an international data standard, a sort of lingua franca for computing. What is XML and Why Should Companies Use It? 2010-04-19T16:49:00Z I did not even feel I was deserting my post, as the debate between the three party leaders was final confirmation that the language of the commentary box has become the lingua franca of TV. Nick Clegg would not have won if the others had done a Gary Neville 2010-04-18T23:10:00Z English new lingua franca The EU has recruitment cycles for three main categories: administrators - for example, lawyers and economists - linguists and office assistants. Brussels beckons 2010-03-12T07:35:00Z The constituent republics declared the death of the old lingua franca Serbo-Croat, which, alongside Macedonian and Slovene, was spoken across the country. Tongue-twister 2010-02-19T12:20:00Z Researchers in other countries generally defer to the DSM, too, making the manual’s definitions a lingua franca for the science of medical psychology. 2010-02-04T10:41:00Z Their long voyage with Captain Garcia had taught them sufficient of the lingua franca of the high seas at that period to understand his frantic appeal. The Great Mogul The Arabic language has been the lingua franca of the East from the time that it succeeded Greek in the seventh century. The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. One of them spoke now in Songhoi, the lingua franca of the vicinity. Black Man's Burden Riuku cursed her again, in the lingua franca of a dozen systems. The Very Secret Agent Accordingly, she began showing me her dolls, meanwhile relating to me in her lingua franca the history of each. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. To whoever occupied the room he murmured a few words of apology in Wolof, the Sengalese lingua franca. Border, Breed Nor Birth For as there is a lingua franca of many tongues on the moles and in the feluccas of the Mediterranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) We operate a school in New York where we teach native languages and lingua franca such as Swahili and Songhai, in preparation for going to Africa. Black Man's Burden In the lingua franca of the African ports, a mixture of Italian, French, Greek and Catalan, he explained just what the situation was. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore For commercial and military arrangements between Romans and Germans some kind of lingua franca must soon have sprung up, and in it the names of the week-days must have found their place. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays It was in vain for Phineas to plead that he must accept the lingua franca of the British Army like all other things appertaining thereto. The Rough Road Where, by migrations, conditions have become too complicated, the most important of the dialects has been adopted as a kind of “lingua franca.” Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific She held her hands high and began a stream of what was gibberish to Crawford who didn't understand Wolof, the Senegalese lingua franca. Black Man's Burden There was a common language in Western Asia, Aramean, the lingua franca of traders from Nineveh to Memphis; and Jew, Assyrian and Egyptian conversed in it. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 He spoke a lingua franca, which he found I understood. The Three Midshipmen Each tribe has its own, but the name for the generally spoken lingua franca is Rom. The Gypsies The lingua franca is a jargon compounded at random, devoid of grammar or elegance; the Malayan, on the contrary, is musical, simple in its construction, and well calculated for the expression of poetry. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy If any language was to become the lingua franca of all Africa, French would be more suitable. Black Man's Burden Probably a considerable majority of its inhabitants spoke Greek as a lingua franca, if not as their mother-tongue. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield The homely idiomatic language in opposition to any mixed jargon, or lingua franca, spoken by an imported slave:—2. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg "What'n hell?" he asked, in the lingua franca that all Indians are supposed to understand. The Lion of Petra Malayan language has been compared to the lingua franca of Europe. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy There is truce betwixt our nations," he said, in the lingua franca commonly used for the purpose of communication with the Crusaders; "Wherefore should there be war betwixt thee and me? The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book From up there," he said, speaking in Acalan, the lingua franca of the North American West Coast on that sector, "we can see across the valley to Careba. Time Crime In Janet’s house she only heard a sort of ‘lingua franca’ of Greek, Italian, Nubian and English. Letters from Egypt We had a talk, using the lingua franca of French, English with a Scottish accent, German, and the few words of Dutch I could remember. Adventures of a Despatch Rider The author aims at copying the methods of naturally formed international languages like the lingua franca or Pidgin-English. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar His fellow prisoners spoke Urdu among themselves, and Desmond found some alleviation of the monotony of his life in learning the lingua franca of India under the Babu's tuition. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Thus throughout India, Hindustani became a lingua franca, the imperial language. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments In course of time, Arabic replaced the Aramean dialect, and became the lingua franca of the Jews. Chapters on Jewish Literature At that time, too, of all literary charms, that of good Latin prose was by far the most popular, and the language was still the "lingua franca" of the learned all the world over. Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Every one has heard of the lingua franca of the Levant. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar "Why do you want to go back to Aden?" he inquired in the lingua franca of the Indian Empire, of Moussa whose heart beat high with hope. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life It was this lingua franca that Europeans in India set themselves to acquire. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments And what prospects are there of a lingua franca? What is Coming? Already the Chinese have produced a regular lingua franca, and the Japanese have reduced it to a system of grammar. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I He spoke several Dayak dialects, but not Dutch, still less English, for Malay is the lingua franca of the Dutch Indies as well as of the Malay Peninsula. Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 "I observed," replied the fair young man in the mongrel Arabic-Swahili lingua franca of the Red Sea and East African littorals "that it is but natural for dogs to prey upon dogs." Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life Railways have given a mighty impetus to religion by facilitating access to places of pilgrimage; the post office keeps disaffected elements in touch; and English has become a lingua franca. Tales of Bengal Such a specialised simplified Anglo-American variety of English would enormously stimulate the already wide diffusion of the language, and go far to establish it as that lingua franca of which the world has need. What is Coming? His language, in public at least, is Hindustanee, but this is a sort of lingua franca, the common property of all the inhabitants of the country. Concerning Animals and Other Matters Many of the inhabitants are descended from the traders of those times, and they all speak the lingua franca, or Levantine Italian. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain What they have done, I gather, is to invent a nightmare of a lingua franca in which they appear to hold amicable converse. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Malay is the lingua franca of the Straits Settlements, and in the seaports a number of Portuguese and Dutch words have been incorporated with it. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Young hooligans of France slouched around with their hands in their pockets, talking to our men in a queer lingua franca, grimacing at those noises if they did not come too near. Now It Can Be Told He spoke in that queer language of the North African seaboard, that lingua franca, which sounded like some French dialect interspersed with Arabic words. The Sea-Hawk The "heathen" were probably Portuguese descendants, in whose language Kiernander preached as the lingua franca of the time. Life of William Carey These words he spoke in the French language, and not in the lingua franca, or compound of Eastern and European dialects, which had hitherto been used amongst them. The Talisman Neither of them suspected her knowledge of French which enabled her to follow most of what was said in the lingua franca they employed. The Sea-Hawk "This lingua franca is none so different from French." The Sea-Hawk "Hold there!" he had bellowed to his sea-hawks, using the lingua franca. The Sea-Hawk There is truce betwixt our nations," he said, in the lingua franca commonly used for the purpose of communication with the Crusaders; "wherefore should there be war betwixt thee and me? The Talisman The last word was spoken in the lingua franca, and instantly obeyed by the physician. The Talisman |
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