At the mention of Monte Cristo Dantes started with joy; he rose to conceal his emotion, and took a turn around the smoky tavern, where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a
lingua franca. When he again joined the two persons who had been discussing the matter, it had been decided that they should touch at Monte Cristo and set out on the following night.
``I asked you, my children,'' said the Prior, raising his voice, and using the
lingua Franca, or mixed language, in which the Norman and Saxon races conversed with each other, ``if there be in this neighbourhood any good man, who, for the love of God, and devotion to Mother Church, will give two of her humblest servants, with their train, a night's hospitality and refreshment?''
There were several of his priests and lawyers present (as I conjectured by their habits), who were commanded to address themselves to me; and I spoke to them in as many languages as I had the least smattering of, which were High and Low Dutch, Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, and
Lingua Franca, but all to no purpose.
Every dialect from Labrador to Long Island, with Portuguese, Neapolitan,
Lingua Franca, French, and Gaelic, with songs and shoutings and new oaths, rattled round him, and he seemed to be the butt of it all.
(46) Seidlhofer, Barbara, "English as a
Lingua Franca." ELT Journal 59 (4), 2005, 339-341.
"If we don't do something about it we'll lose our
lingua franca altogether,"spat Audrey, on why she's teaching English to foreigners, although presumably not on the concept of irony.
There cannot be any doubt that the native tongue of a Galilean Jew of Jesus' time was Aramaic, the
lingua franca of the Near East.
But [Autodesk is] focused on CAD workflow, offering a
lingua franca to the CAD ecosystem, unlike Adobe, which comes right out of the publishing world.
Kazin provides numerous examples of his subject's ability and willingness to effortlessly combine political and religious metaphors and arguments, at a time when God's Word was the
lingua franca of far-flung Protestant America.
Quan-probably the only chick lit writer to discuss indentured labor, sex worker rights, and the proper purse in which to carry a dildo--has written on sex and gender issues for
Lingua Franca, Salon, and Congressional Quarterly.
Security's
lingua franca. Aligning IT with business goals was the number one challenge facing the majority of CIOs in the public and private sectors, according to a Government Accountability Office report.