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1. As the heat in my soul rose to a combustible level I forgot the rudiments of the English language, reverting to a lingua franca that combined the best of the gutter from East and West
2. What did Jesus call his “Father in Heaven?” The Bible again tells us that when Jesus hung upon the cross, in the extremis of his mortal condition, he asked the question “My God! My God! Why have you forsaken me?” He spoke this in the lingua Franca of his time, Aramaic
3. Looking quickly at Miriam and the children on the horse, then at Yosef, he returned his attention to Nauca and spoke in Koine, a sort of pidgin-Greek that was the Lingua Franca of the Roman Empire
4. During the last week of Lent, one of the songs that they use in the church is the Latin “Pange Lingua,” which literally means, “Sing my tongue
5. metaphor—the lingua franca of the unconscious
6. At the mention of Monte Cristo Dantes started with joy; he rose to conceal his emotion, and took a turn around the smoky tavern, where all the languages of the known world were jumbled in a lingua franca
7. The Hypertext Markup Language is the lingua franca of the Web, but it actually has little to do with the functions of a web server
8. Text of a reply to the Lingua Magnus from the Archivist Magister, written the next day:
9. For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it