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• timestatic@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is about localization, not about renaming the thing

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Got it, let’s name it in mandarin then

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  • Jrockwar@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I love that you called it the lingua franca.

      Why yes, English is the French.

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      • endeavor@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Uh do you not know what “lingua franca” means or are you making a joke?

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• lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Chinese says hi.

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  • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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