-> nitpicking: don't think 'franca' stands for french, see
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca (I'm not 100% sure whether
>you were implying franca stands for french or simply that franch was
>lingua franca once)
Actually, I did mean both, as I knew the franca part had something to do
with the Franks which had to do with Gaul which includes much of modern-day
France. I actually thought that's where the term came from.
Merci beaucoup - I stand corrected.
(Self-esteem about bottomed-out for the day.) :)
- M
Received on Sun Mar 5 04:15:06 2006
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