Comment by JumpCrisscross

20 hours ago

Yes, we understand what a first language is. You should understand why that’s irrelevant to this discussion.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF  20 hours ago

You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.

  • lelanthran  5 hours ago

    > You know, they weren't the one to bring it up and their point seems to have consistently been that the majority of the global population does not speak English.

    While that has consistently been their point, it's also wrong.

    Their bar for "speaking English" is "Native Language". Absolutely no one uses that as a bar when talking about how many people can consume content in $LANGUAGE.

  • JumpCrisscross  19 hours ago

    Plurality of the world (25%) and a larger plurality of the internet-connected world (37%, [1]) speak English. (Granted, most of TikTok’s market now probably doesn’t speak English.)

    [1] https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Statistics/pages/stat/default.a...