>lingua franca >one of the ugliest languages in existance

What the fuck is a lingua franca?

>>66367809
>ugly
it's not

>>66368025
kek

>>66368025
a language that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different so basically english

I always thought English looked a lot like Dutch

And isn't it pretty much agreed upon that English's closest language is Dutch?

>>66369859
> I always thought English looked a lot like Dutch
It does but that's not necessarily a good thing.

>>66369859
german is the closest language to dutch.

dutch is the closest (non meme) language to english

>>66367809
Honestly, one of Romance languages should be used instead of English.

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>>66367809
What language should that be? Dutch?

It certainly shouldn't be French. Fuck those pretentious faguettes.

>>66368025
>literally five seconds away from googling it

Literally fingertips away from a knowledge bank people would have killed for decades ago

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>>66370048
>dutch
>non meme

>>66371606
>It certainly shouldn't be French.
Yes it should. And germans are way more arogants than us.

>>66369859
>>66370048
The closest being West Frisian.

>>66368025
lingua = language
franca = french

it's just the french way of saying "the french language"

>>66370048
When dutch people speak it sounds like they speak swedish but I can't understand what they're saying. It's really weird.

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>Latin is dead

I'd say it should be Swedish. Of all the Germanic languages, it has the best ring to it, and it's pretty melodic.

It's also the ONLY language that lets you communicate with people in all the Nordic countries, since Finns arn't taught English in school.

>>66377233
kys

The world was doing great when French was the international language while it went to shit when English replaced it. You judge for yourselves.

lingua franca should be at least a Romance language

>>66368025
Maybe it's related to Aleppo but...what is Aleppo?

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>>66367809
>"one of the ugliest languages in existance"
>says the Dutchman

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>>66370048
>dutch is the closest (non meme) language
but Dutch is the meme version of German

finnish will be the next lingua franca better get started studying boys

>>66378668
perkele! enough to not get killed by a snipo ?

>>66376946
you should listen to belgians.

Belgians have a rolling R, they don't have the harsh sounds Dutch Dutch has and the vowels seem more in line with swedish.

>>66367809
>one of the ugliest languages in existance
Projecting much?

>>66376875
no

>>66368025
You're killing me, Smalls.

>>66378668
If it doesn't work out, we're always ready as a backup option.

>>66367809
Nah, it's cool because it's easy and basically you'd have to be a retard to not understand it.

I want a language with 18 noun classes.

>>66376875
Nah

>>66377233
Arabic is a good germanic language too