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How come the english language is the best language there is? I'm pretty sure that if we took all the World's language dictionaries, the english one would be the biggest.

>> No.13398785
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>>13398711
>Whatever exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.
-Dr Samuel Johnson

This is why English is unstoppable, when you rule the world your language rules with it

>> No.13398804

>>13398785
German was the lingua franca in Europe until like WW1. Anyone that thinks English is used more than other languages because of imperialism is ignorant as fuck.

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>>13398804
>German was the lingua franca
>German
>lingua franca

>> No.13398813

>>13398809
It true

>> No.13398821

>>13398813
It was objectively French but you're free to supply literally any evidence otherwise

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>>13398821
If that's true why almost all their philosophy is subversive shit?

>> No.13398832

You guys jerk yourselves off over everything.

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>>13398809
Il est un connard total

>> No.13398841

>>13398829
Because they're sex obsessed perverts

>> No.13398842

>>13398821
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

>German served as a lingua franca in portions of Europe for centuries, mainly the Holy Roman Empire outside of the sphere of influence of the Hanseatic League, which used Low German, and to a lesser extent in Eastern Europe where the Polish Empire and the Russian Empire dominated, and South-Eastern Europe where the Ottoman Empire was the dominant cultural influence over the centuries. In fact, the Romantic movement with Goethe and Schiller at its top, at the end of the 18th century, served as a rediscovery of the German language for the German people that used, at this point, largely French as a lingua franca like almost all European regions, but German can be indeed still considered as a lingua franca though with far less importance than French until the 20th century or English today.

Everyone is correct today

>> No.13398844

>>13398804
most European nobles spoke French.

>> No.13398851

>>13398842
>German served as a lingua franca in portions of Europe for centuries, mainly the Holy Roman Empire

kek German served as the Lingua Franca in Germany who'd a thunk it

>> No.13398859

>>13398851
>in Germany
Yeah, because, like, the HRE was totally just ethnic Germans.

>> No.13398870

>>13398859
It overwhelmingly was at all points in history. A minority of Italians and Bohemians doesn't make calling your own language a lingua franca any less ridiculous

>> No.13398880

>>13398809
The Franks were Germans

>> No.13398886

>>13398870
>A minority of Italians and Bohemians
French, Slavs, Dutch, probably Danes too

>> No.13398887

>>13398886
I was talking about the minorities of any size that mattered

>> No.13398969

>>13398711
I still adamantly believe /lit/ should use British English.

>> No.13398989

>>13398969
Limeys should hang. I’m not kidding. All the Good British stock emigrated from that place centuries ago, and all that remains is the dregs of the genetic goblet.

>> No.13398996

>>13398989
Based

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>>13398969
>I still adamantly believe /lit/ should use British English.