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Subject: RE:English is lingua franca around the world !!! 
Author: Minjia ZHANG
Creation date: Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:40:44 AM EST
Date last modified: Thursday, October 7, 2010 11:40:44 AM EST
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Parent Post--by Mohammed Saeed A ALSHAHRANI
As we know, English regarded as a lingua franca/global language all over the world. People who are from different nations . Communicate with each other in English, It is spread across culture and improve economy. There are several of reasons to present why it is as a lingua franca. Firstly, English become language of technology, America grew powerful through technology innovation. Furthermore, economy is a majority factor to lead English as a super language. People do business from different countries, and make money from trade by communicating in English. It shows global economy can be improvement. Finally, it is educational language , it means many subjects use it to describe these knowledge to be understood and involved such as Medicine, Computer, Engineering and accounting.

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Yes, I absolutely agree with you on the issue. In my opinion, the trend of lingua franca depends on the ecnomic power. Look back towards  the history, there were several reasons which pushed the English language being the dominant language in a numbers of countries. Then many documents and information were stored in English. In the modern society, more and more countries adopted English as their compulsory courses in basic or tertiary education. It has been spreaded widely and widely. Furthermore, computer usage especially internet which was invented by American became a significantly important element in our lives. People nearly cound not live without the techology. It is involved in public service, daily work or social lives. Also English is the primary language on the internet. So English is definitely the lingua franca in the world.