Since English became Lingua Franca of the World, people who do not share the same language and for whom English is not their mother tongue has been trying to speak English in anywhere of the world with each other. Sometimes we can see some surprising characteristics of these conversations. Barbara Seidhofler at the university of Vienna has noted some of them, including:
- No use of third person present simple tense -s ( she look ver sad)
- Interchangeable use of