Lies are certainly the last thing I'd ever suggest.
Briton-bashing is sooo 1968. You may not have felt it on your continent, but in Europe today, we're facing other problems than expansionist or hubris-filled Englishmen. Of course that does not mean we should forget the wrongs of the past, but we shouldn't obsessively dwell on them.
And just for the record: I'm downplaying nothing, just trying to put things in perspective.
We already have "regional" linguae francae (?), such as Spanish, Arabian, French, and (Mandarin) Chinese.Maybe a several lingua franca is the way to go? The Ottomans and Romans had a couple of widespread languages (eg Greek was widely spoken in both).
Wut? For all I know, Turkish is comparatively easy. The grammar is rather stupid and there are no difficult sounds like in Arabian. Japanese, OTOH, is said to be very difficult.The hardest languages to learn : Chinese (Canton), Mongolian, Turkish.....
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