@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

@freemo I don't think Thailand had been officially colonized, though it probably was target of the British and the.. French? before. But surrounding countries were, and that'd affect even Thailand.

@trinsec since i have a thai girlfriend i really should start learning more about the countries history.

@freemo Hehe, yeah. ;)

@sj_zero that is surprising as well. I always had this mental image of it being very hard to get by with english in asian coubtries. Im learning quickly that, at least here, that is not the case.