RE: Lingua Franca Today

[jrondeau <jrondeau -at- OREGON -dot- UOREGON -dot- EDU>]

Among other things, I'm fascinated by how this thread has turned into a 
discussion of something quite different from the original question.

>From what I can tell from various job descriptions and postings, the term you 
want (alas!) is Business English.

(Strictly speaking -- to follow the _other_ variant on this thread -- in the 
spirit of etymological and historial precision, the phrase you want probably 
isn't lingua franca.  But that's academic nitpicking for you.  I liked your 
original use of the term, anyway.)

Jennifer

>===== Original Message From kelley <kwalker2 -at- gte -dot- net> =====
>Hi folks,
>
<snip>
>
>what exactly do we call the english that is the lingua franca of the
>contemporary corporate world?
>
>corporate english? business english? american english?  ??
>
>thanks,
>
>Kelley
>


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