• @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      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
        link
        English
        -58 hours ago

        I love that you called it the lingua franca.

        Why yes, English is the French.

          • @surewhynotlem
            link
            English
            -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.

            • @[email protected]
              link
              fedilink
              English
              16 hours ago

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