[peterfirefly]

> The idea that somebody somewhere could have a possible solution to our urgent problems but we'll need to wait until this people learns English and "earns the right to be heard", is a disaster.

Gauss, Leibniz, Euler, and the Bernoullis (all of them) wrote their theses in Latin.

Methinks you aren't so much against a lingua franca but want it to be Latin(ate) and not English.