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And in construction teams consisting of workers from around the world who use English as a lingua franca, we make do with an even lower level of language competence just so long as everyone on the team understands what needs to be done. Of course, this is how every lingua franca works. But what has become characteristic of English is that its use as a lingua franca has become the norm while native languages fade into the background.
Latin: Story of a World Language
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