Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…
Literally I feel like they’re just trying to say: “Hey this is a foreign language I’m sooo cooool!”
Usually its like just a few words sprinkled in, or at most like one or two lines…
Literally I feel like they’re just trying to say: “Hey this is a foreign language I’m sooo cooool!”
global dominance of English in the 20th and 21st centuries is quite the euphemism for the global imperialist reign of Britain and the US and its cultural erasure globally
It’s really not a euphemism. There will always be a language that’s the most common for international trade, diplomacy, travel, and general discourse.
It was not always English, even when Britain was at the peak of its empire.
It’s easy to claim that it’s role as the lingua franca is bolstered by the international position of the US and Britain over the past 150 ish years, but that doesn’t make it a euphemism.
Yeah, the lingua franca used to be French. 😄