• @[email protected]
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        04 hours ago

        Please stop these idiotic arguments. I don’t think you’re actually so dumb, that you don’t understand what my point was. So you’re being willfully obtuse just to annoy other people. Also, Chinese isn’t a thing. You probably mean Mandarin Chinese, which does have the highest number of native speakers. But English is still the common language (or lingua franca) across the world, even though it is number 3 in terms of native speakers.

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        199 hours ago
        Language Native Speakers Total Speakers Sources
        English ~380 million ~1.5 billion Wikipedia
        German ~76–95 million ~155–220 million Wikipedia
        Mandarin ~941 million–1.12 billion ~1.1–1.3 billion Wikipedia

        Well, it has 10x more speakers than German, but it still has fewer speakers than English and most of them are localised in a single country.

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        98 hours ago

        Please stop being an obnoxious ass. English is the de-facto lingua franca of the world, acting like German is in any way comparable is just disingenuous.

        • @surewhynotlem
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          -58 hours ago

          I love that you called it the lingua franca.

          Why yes, English is the French.

            • @surewhynotlem
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              -16 hours ago

              The latter. Though given the downvotes, I think people are either not smart enough to get it, or too smart and think I don’t get it.

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                16 hours ago

                You just said what everyone thinks when they hear ‘lingua franca’ for the first time.