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De facto it's English currently even if they don't want to admit it
by wat1771 9mo ago
De facto it's English currently even if they don't want to admit it
- maxldn 9mo agoI kind of assumed brexit would make people give up pretending, but that doesn’t seem to have happened
- direwolf20 9mo agoEnglish is the most widely spoken language. It is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random European citizen — in the same way Chinese is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random Earthling. This doesn't mean if you do something in English (Chinese) the whole continent (planet) will understand it. It is very useful to know. Especially if you talk to someone who travels internationally a lot, some rich businessman or non–local politician, they surely speak English too.
- Anonyneko 9mo ago>in the same way Chinese is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random Earthling It's still going to be English, although not by a huge margin if you include non-Mandarin Chinese.