[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agoPeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.message-squaremessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down16
arrow-up138arrow-down1message-squarePeople around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic.[鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 days agomessage-square29fedilink
minus-squareDelascas@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 days agoTranslation: Imagine if the world’s lingua franca wasn’t English but Mandarin.
Translation: Imagine if the world’s lingua franca wasn’t English but Mandarin.