Lingua franca

I think it definitely changes the entire game.

It really lowers the barrier to entry and it almost eliminates the need, frankly, for a lingua franca because we can just use these LLMs as the ultimate cultural and linguistic translator.

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My name is Eli Woodward.

Oh, that's super cool.

And that's crazy.

So you then now, well, I guess tell me a little bit more about the history of Russian language and the cybercrime forums, because you use the term there, the lingua franca of cybercrime.

So what's the history of that? How did that come about? And basically, what was it about your skill set that ultimately brought you into this career field?

Which these are aiming to like unite people through a common language that is not necessarily everybody else's language.

Because, you know, throughout history and up to today, usually the Ligua Franca was the language of some particularly powerful group.

English is not the lingua franca of the world because it's better than other languages.

English is the lingua franca of the world because first the British conquered most of the world.

It doesn't just sound ridiculous to them or from them, but it just tells you how authentic it is because we, as a Nigerian people, we created that language, Nigerian Pidgin.

In fact, I'll, I'll go, I'll go as far as saying that in my opinion, Nigerian Pidgin should be our lingua franca.

That should be our lingua fr- lingua franca.

It should be our official language because it's such a beautiful language, right? We can communicate ourselves.

It's beautiful how that just because of how diverse Nigeria is, there's-- if you go to different, if you go to the north, you almost, you might not find somebody who speaks the same language as you in, in a whole town or in a whole village, for instance.

So yeah, uh, look, English, Robert, you've traveled the world like I have.

English is kind of a lingua franca at this point, or at least in-- Okay, it's not super widely spoken, like, in all parts of Asia, but I would think for an event like the Asian Games, not everyone's gonna know Japanese, and all these other people from the countries that aren't Japan, they're probably more likely to know some English than they are to know Japanese, I, I think, for the most part.

Uh, I think it is a-- Yeah, it seems a little weird they wouldn't do, like, Japanese and English, but I think in a lot of these major sporting events, they use English just because they know it's the language that most of these people are most likely to know some of, rather than just doing Japanese, where only the Japanese athletes will know it.

But yeah, the Japanese fans, they're way more likely to know Japanese, so I'm kinda curious why they wouldn't also introduce people in Japanese.

Folks, if you're, if you're visi- if you're visiting the forum, letsrun.com/forum, it's like the sports radio for our sport.

You can be a track fan 24/7, 365.

You would've learned the term lingua franca if you did not know it, 'cause that was posted on the message board.

Lingua franca is a shared language used by communication, for communication by people who do not share a native language or dialect.