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> And it certainly doesn’t know that there are only 9 million people around to read its output, versus the 75 million who speak French, or the 78 million who sp
by igravious 12y ago
> And it certainly doesn’t know that there are only 9 million people around to read its output, versus the 75 million who speak French, or the 78 million who speak German.
Minor nitpick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of...
FR: 74m
DE: 89m
That's assuming Wiki P is correct-ish and that page is not some Teuto[+]-bot generated nonsense
[+] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_nationality_prefixes https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_nationality_...
- legulere 12y agoThere are over 80m people living in Germany which is already more than 78m, and this is totally ignoring German speakers in Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, Italy and Poland. I don't know how they came to those numbers.
- barry-cotter 12y agoYou forgot France, Lichtenstein and Namibia.