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Amusing visual evidence that speaking English sucks: http://cnrsociety.org/images/English-Official_Map-s.png http://cnrsociety.org/images/English-Official_Map-s

• 430gj9j 14y ago
  This would be a great analogy if countries in grey shared a common language.
• rjtavares 14y ago
  There's a difference between "A vs. B" and "A vs. Not A"
• bjustin 14y ago
  >1/6 is a rather sizable fraction of the world's population (India itself is ~1/6 or 1/7 at over a billion people). Are there any other languages that are official for so many people? The metric system graphic indicates <1/6 of the world's population highlighted as not using the metric system, making gp's point stronger.
  • funkaster 14y ago
    > Are there any other languages that are official for so many people? Yes, Chinese for one. And Spanish closely follows English[1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_numb...
• derleth 14y ago
  The map's wrong to the extent it implies the USA has an official language. We have a de facto standard language, but we have no laws defining an official language.
  • dubcanada 14y ago
    And that's even funnier because Canada (as well as "the African ones") English isn't the only standard language. Canada for example has French as well as English, and Africa, well that depends which one. But it certainly isn't 100% English.