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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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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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