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To: BipolarBob
Can you speak Cantonese?

There are people in China who can't speak understandably to one another. (In my experience, in the US, these tend to use English among themselves. English seems to have largely become the modern ingua franca :-)
9 posted on 02/12/2021 8:26:23 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

‘lingua franca’.


10 posted on 02/12/2021 8:27:36 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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