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Comment by throwaway201606

3 days ago

The language of global commerce and technology has not and has never been English

It is money.

Specifically, right now, petro-dollars. For a while before that, it was pounds

The writer is asking how much longer that will continue to be true that it is petro-dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_currency

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gegtik  3 days ago

right, it was english, but then it became english

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