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If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick?
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I've heard good things about Indonesian/Malay. It probably helps it was a regional lingua franca for a long time.
English was legit the best choice in Europe - analytic, with vocabulary drawn from a couple major families, and (almost) no grammatical gender. If only we could unfuck the orthography...
I feel like Indonesian is what Esperanto could've been.