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You could say it was like some kind of “lingua franca”.
There was a German King of Great Britain that largely communicated with his ministers in French.
Most Russian aristocracy spoke French amongst themselves, too
European aristocrats in general before the XXth century.
Lingua Franca never heard of her
Umm, well, yea. That’s history for you.
Some interesting résidues of French domination: one of the 2 work languages of the UN Secretariat with English, the 5 continental rings of the Olympic symbol (America is one), the coordinated universal time UTC acronym.
Hmm but in french it’s “temps universel coordonné”, so I’m not sure I’m getting what you mean.
English gives CUT and French gives TUC. One reason UTC was chosen is to be a compromise between the two, instead of favoring one.
