• ilmagico@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    True only if including when spoken as a second language. Chinese and Spanish are spoken by more people as a first language than English.

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      1 year ago

      Why would that matter? English has 300 million more speakers than Mandarin. India is the largest country in the world and they speak English.

      So it’s just “true” period.

      • ParsnipWitch@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        But why would people on Mastodon for example use English instead of their first language? That’s the point. Mastodon works different from Lemmy. When I am simply writing a sort of online diary about my research project, local politics or whatever, why would it be in English?!

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        Only ~15% of Indians speak English, although it is a very large country so that is enough to mean it has the second most overall (behind the USA)