On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:10:34PM -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:04:56PM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > Worldwide 5,822,000 people use languages which cannot be represented
> > using en.US and only 508,000 people ( less than 10%) use English.
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> Hey now. I know a lot of us are barely literate, but still, I bet you can
> find at *least* a million people who use English *somewhere* in America.
But I only left out extra zeros, which represent "nothing". ;-)
My apologies Matthew. Blame my tenure as analyst, where we always drop
the last three or six zeros in our tables. The correct numbers are;
5,822,000,000 non-english language (5.8 Billion)
508,000,000 english language (0.5 Billion)
or a slightly more than ten to 1 ratio.
> Hey now. I know a lot of us are barely literate, but still, I bet you can
> find at *least* a million people who use English *somewhere* in America.
Well, its perspective dependent isn't it? Most of the folks in England
might say that we here in the states only speak "American" and not
"English" :-)
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