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Quenitin Shaw (Guardian Letters) makes a simple but powerful point about one of the reasons behind the domination of English as the world's shared second language or 'lingua franca';
English is easy to speak badly but still conveys an approximation of meaning - its flexibility and tolerance for formal errors is its strength.
Its a simple point, well-made & makes simple sense of a global phenomena

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