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I would certainly agree that it would be no more than 100% and probably not much less.
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More like 15-20%, atcherley -- the bulk of them in the earlier stages of ESL.
More people speak Mandarin (and a lot more people read Chinese than English).
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How many Chinese speak some English?
I would suggest it runs to Millions.
And there are 1.1 Billion Indians for whom English is one of the Official Languages.
Virtually every European has some English.
Nigeria is the largest country in Africa (By population) and it speaks English.
As do Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana etc.
There are at least 1.5 Billion speakers of English, rather more than the 1.02 Billion speakers of Mandarin.
Of the about 200 countries in the world, one third speak English as an official language.
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Dalek Dave wrote: There are at least nowhere near 1.5 Billion native speakers of English, rather more less than the 1.02 .955 Billion native speakers of Mandarin. Just because you want it to be so don't make it so[^].
-- If you include people who speak "some" of a language, the figures are even worse.
-- If you include people who read Chinese, they're off the charts (there are several spoken Chinese languages, other than Mandarin, but only two written Chinese languages, which are readable by all).
-- The figures for English include the population of the USA, who have their own language, which is in some ways more different from English than Cantonese is from Mandarin.
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BTW:
Dalek Dave wrote: Of the about 200 countries in the world, one third speak English as an official language. Only an accountant could typo a fifth as a third.
And let's not bother to mention that most of that fifth are countries so small that you can drive through them in a day (or could, if they had roads).
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According to me this is your name translated[/\]...
Well true, I have it that your name is محمد م محمد
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I've been calling you squiggle.
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Looks like "Jako P Jako" to me, so I vote for "Jackie".
Every character is totally alien to me. I kinda like that.
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I'm changing my vote from Jackie to Jojo!
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My real name is the same as my password, and follows these rules[^]
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'll never be able to find one, I don't know any gang member wanting to teach me their sign.
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Just create your own gang then
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Certainly: •••••
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OK:
sonia.legrand@gmail.com
First 5 characters:
12son
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Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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I just checked with googlies and punctuation makes all the difference: William's Great![^]
speramus in juniperus
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That explains why I always assumed that "Nagy" was a description of your behaviour!
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English doesn't borrow from other languages.
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Nagy can be translated as great, big, large, tall, high, etc, etc, etc.
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...or "tends to nag a lot"...
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Too easy
Try this:
Password must be longer than the equivalent base of the prime number based letter of your name in Cantonese writing.
Must have at least one word from elvish, Mando'a, Twi'leki, Jawaese, Sullustese and Ewokese.
Numbers must be used that have the same value when converting from binary to decimal being equal to half the value than from Hexadecimal to Octal.
At least 3 character must be glyph (any).
Lastly, only blood of a virgin born on the 13th July of a prime year before 1920 with both parents living accepted
Wish I could give you example but CP might clone the blood sample I got.
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I'll play, which two dots. Also, if you were an actual Arab, you'd know why teh spelling has two variations.
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Keith Barrow wrote: teh
Don't you start with that!
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My suspicion has been aroused, the MO looks about right. I've done this each time I think he's come back , but this is the first time it has been noticed.
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meh.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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