Lingua Franca

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one that is not the first language of any of its speakers.

   “Taking these cues, I rewrote and rewrote the proposal couching my problem in the bland, euphemistic language that I was rapidly learning is the lingua franca of the corporate world.”

2. özel isim Sabir, the Italian-based pidgin that served as a common language of Mediterranean trade around the 11th-19th centuries.

   “...tusheroon and its C.20 variant tossaroon (2s. 6d.) are manifest corruptions of Lingua Franca MADZA CAROON.”