On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:11:13 +0100, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>I recently had a discussion with my daughter. She studies English and it 
>was about English as lingua franca. I said that if on a conference the 
>language is 'English' that means that an international dialect is 
>spoken, not any official version of it.

Out of interest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7844192.stm
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Regards
     Stephen

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