I am suprised to see when inarrived in thailand that the Lingua Franca is english. I was under the impression it was mandarin in asian countries

@freemo Euh, nah. Not lingua franca. Many of those funky symbols do have Chinese roots, and the meaning sortakinda might be derived the same, but no.. to my understanding definitely not lingua franca style.
Thailand definitely not.

@trinsec you may be using the term wrong. Lingua Franca is a common language used so people who speak different languages can communicate even though its not a primary language.

Here the highway signs are in thai and english, which makes english the lingua franca.

@freemo Yeah, that's what I meant too. Thai doesn't have much in common with China for them to know Chinese in order to communicate via that.

@trinsec ahh ok i follow now. Y still figured they woukd be closer to chinese than english but hell what i know

@freemo It means that the English colonization has been pretty overwhelmingly powerful back then, heh.

@trinsec oh did we colonize thailand at some point? Figures