Originally Posted by
warthog1984
I call bull$%!&. Outside of *maybe* Latin America and extreme parts of nowhere, exactly which countries don't use English as their lingua franca?
Whether a language is lingua franca or not depends on the circumstances. There are many countries where English would be very useful in urban setting but not at all useful in the interior, where an indigenous language is the lingua franca. In areas were more than one dialect or language is spoken, English may or another regional language may serve as lingua franca.