GulbuddinHekmatyar@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-26 months agoWhy is there no global language that at least half the world speaks?message-squaremessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareXantar@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-26 months agoI’d argue that by your own criteria, English is that language.
minus-squaretobogganablaze@lemmus.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoLess then a quarter of people speak English, so not even close.
minus-squareXantar@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoWell fuck me sideways I thought it was more than that.
minus-squaredavel@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion. So you’re right: one quarter of people at most. Nonetheless that’s remarkable. Too bad it’s due more to subjugation than cooperation.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoAwfully generous of the UK to go out of its way to respect Mongolia. I guess you gotta honor that Klingon code.
minus-squareSir_Fridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·6 months agoNowadays it’s probably also because of the dominance of American culture, especially online.
minus-squareLemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-26 months agoThere’s like 1.2 billion English speakers, including non-native speakers, tho? the OP asks for like 3.5 billion or somethin’… since population globally is 8 billion…
I’d argue that by your own criteria, English is that language.
Less then a quarter of people speak English, so not even close.
Well fuck me sideways I thought it was more than that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-speaking_world
So you’re right: one quarter of people at most. Nonetheless that’s remarkable. Too bad it’s due more to subjugation than cooperation.
Awfully generous of the UK to go out of its way to respect Mongolia. I guess you gotta honor that Klingon code.
Nowadays it’s probably also because of the dominance of American culture, especially online.
There’s like 1.2 billion English speakers, including non-native speakers, tho? the OP asks for like 3.5 billion or somethin’… since population globally is 8 billion…