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If you had to choose a new lingua franca, what language would you pick? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

Hmm, interesting. Do you have reasons, or was that just a random choice? I know pretty little about it. Actually, I'm not even sure if it's Turkic or Persian or something else.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Maybe wrong, but I believe this is from a language learning sub on reddit where people would ask what language they should learn without any other qualifiers. It was asked so frequently that people just started replying Uzbekistani.

    Again, that's my memory of it, could be wrong.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Could be! Like "under the laws of Saudi Arabia..." in the legal advice community.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I assume people asking legal advice but not specifying where they are?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yup. Jurisdiction is very important, but a lot of people seem to have never considered it.

    And if you're not aware, Saudi is still a medieval-style absolute monarchy with public beheadings for, like, adultery. ^(And^ ^a^ ^valued^ ^Western^ ^ally)^

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