Any single lingua franca is necessarily unpoetic
Evidence
It would be more beautiful to live in a symphony of languages than in sorne reduced universal monolingualism-neutral and standardized. There is one thing we can be sure of: a lingua franca (humanistic French, Anglo-American sabir, or Esperanto code) is always apoetical. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 579
Categorization
- XREF: Lingua franca as always apoetical — relevant to how standardized identity performance flattens lived multiplicity. — connects to: Language can never directly express our immediate sensory experience because words are inherently universal