Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US

RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’d just like to mention that plenty of ESL users speak English more than their native, and that the country with the most people who use English for interacting with the Internet, it’s probably India. Indians communicate to a lot of their compatriots in English, since they are also an ex-British colony, and have a large variety of native languages.

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• Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That sounds like America’s problem. Big portion of western eu, especially non-boomer and non-french, comprehend English very well, so I dunno why you’d just dismiss it in a post about us-defaultism when almost everything is text based

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  • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That was the joke.

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    • Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Damn

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• Ziglin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What’s your definition of first/second language if you grow up bilingual?

  The majority of English speakers aren’t from the US, though the US does have the most English speakers. Important distinction to make!

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  No, it’s roughly 20% (297M/1537M). Source.

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