Originally Posted by
KLMS1
You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice and men. And the field was already saturated anyway. It's a little like how back in the day many a king was under the illusion major centers of trade could be ordered into being; not so, those grow organically out of circumstances or not at all. (My home city is a case in point.)
As a rule of thumb what becomes the lingua franca, in a particular field or more generally, is the vernacular of the group most widely influental in that field at the time assuming it isn't excessively inconvenient to learn or something. (Which is a major strike against Chinese becoming more than regionally influental for example.)
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