Re: [Fwd: NEW WEBSITE: Lingua Franca (Corre)]

[I. Oppenheim <i.oppenheim...>]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, George Robinson wrote:

>   This is sort of off-topic but I think it will be of
> interest to most of you.

> http://www.uwm.edu/~corre/franca/go.html

A fascinating website. I was never aware that "Lingua
Franca" was originally the name of a specific language.
That this trading language had many Jewish
contributions does not surprise me: the Dutch market
language also consisted of many Yiddish words and
phrases.

By the way, it's interesting to note that this website
has an edition number and a foreword, like in those
old-fashioned paper publications...

Thank you for forwarding this!


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 Irwin Oppenheim
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