Lingua Franca
Posted by
Nick Tay
What a day, what a day! Had a good start though. I had a cab driver who could actually speak good English. And he was polite too. He asked me if I wanted to take a different route because there was a big jam, he smiled, he said Thank You. Gotta love that. Better then yesterdays cabbie who bad mouthed me as I left the Cab. I was so pissed that I looked at him and said “What Do you want!”. And gave him the “Jelingan maut” Or The Gaze for death. He drove a way quietly into the dark night. (Am I dramatic or what?)
More after Lunch.
lingua fran·ca (frăng’kÉ™)
n., pl. lingua fran·cas (-kÉ™z) also linguae fran·cae (frăng’kÄ“, frăn’sÄ“).
1. A medium of communication between peoples of different languages.
2. A mixture of Italian with Provençal, French, Spanish, Arabic, Greek, and Turkish, formerly spoken on the eastern Mediterranean coast.
[Italian : lingua, language + franca, Frankish (that is, European).]
On this day in History..
- What defines you? - 2003
- Will Tomorrow Ever Come? - 2003
- Celebration Dinner... - 2005
- Finally, I found the perfect balls... - 2005
- Graduation Day... - 2005
- Ding Dong Bell - 2007
- JJCM :- Antique Cafe, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia - 2007
- Burn after reading :- A review - 2008
- Reunited and it feels so good - 2008
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