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Jul 22nd 2015, 6:18 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

Number of native speakers, according to statista.

Chinese - 982 million
Hindi - 460 million
English - 379 million
Spanish - 330 million

• The most spoken languages worldwide | Statistic

I'm guessing this is authoritative and correct to the nearest million.

Jul 22nd 2015, 6:43 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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*deep breath*

That 379 million still seems a little light, doesn't it?

Jul 22nd 2015, 7:55 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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*deep breath*

That 379 million still seems a little light, doesn't it?

As I mentioned, it's accurate to the nearest million, so there's a bit of wiggle room.

Jul 22nd 2015, 8:01 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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As I mentioned, it's accurate to the nearest million, so there's a bit of wiggle room.

You know, I'm still not 100% sure of the exact ratio of facetiousness to seriousness I intended that post to have

Jul 22nd 2015, 8:55 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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That 379 million still seems a little light, doesn't it?

... especially since most of the people who "speak English" aren't even particularly good at it ...

Jul 22nd 2015, 9:19 pm

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... especially since most of the people who "speak English" aren't even particularly good at it ...

Tell me about it. I now live in Norfolk.

Jul 23rd 2015, 2:45 am

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

This conversation had a golden opportunity to use the one emoticon I've never seen used on BE:

Jul 23rd 2015, 3:34 am

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Tell me about it. I now live in Norfolk.

Bootiful!

Jul 23rd 2015, 7:31 am

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This conversation had a golden opportunity to use the one emoticon I've never seen used on BE:

I was looking for the "spank me" emoticon, but couldn't find it among the official BE offerings.

Jul 23rd 2015, 7:35 am

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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Originally Posted by Pulaski

Bootiful!

OMG I just made a connection there..

People here say "foo" instead of few. Another one is "hoomid" for humid.

I've not seen any turkeys though, but plenty of pigs. Really big ones.

Jul 23rd 2015, 12:13 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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I was looking for the "spank me" emoticon, but couldn't find it among the official BE offerings.

/helpful

Jul 23rd 2015, 8:14 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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Well there's one that contradicts the mainstream. Surely it's not a 'crock' though, since you posted it.

Jul 23rd 2015, 9:45 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

I'm just disheartened to find that some believe Wikipedia to be a valid reference.

Jul 23rd 2015, 11:38 pm

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Re: Would you have come to America ...

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Originally Posted by robin1234

OMG I just made a connection there..

People here say "foo" instead of few. Another one is "hoomid" for humid.

I've not seen any turkeys though, but plenty of pigs. Really big ones.

Mmmmm…. bacon.