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"That's a destruction of the richness of our linguistic commons and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing so." Never read a more US-centric comment on
by _Codemonkeyism 9y ago
"That's a destruction of the richness of our linguistic commons and you ought to be ashamed of yourself for doing so."
Never read a more US-centric comment on HN towards people who are a.) not native speakers b.) don't have the vocubulary which seems to be necessary to leave comments on HN. But I assume these are the times.
Luckily the most common language in 50y will be Chinese.
Hopefully they are more polite than this.
- lostlogin 9y ago> Luckily the most common language in 50y will be Chinese China has multiple languages and ‘Chinese’ isn’t really a single language. Mandarin is already the most spoken language by a large margin, and even that has several dialects.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoLuckily we have you to point out the obvious.
- bradleyjg 9y ago> Never read a more US-centric comment on HN In case you aren’t aware, English is spoken in many places other than the United States. Most obviously in England.
- _Codemonkeyism 9y agoIn case you are not aware, British people on HN are way outnumbered by commentators from the US, so HN is US centric and by no way UK centric. Also concerning the nation-centric point of view, people from the UK are way less focused on their country and know other people outside their country exist. If you are from the UK, take my apologies. If your from the US, case in point.