Predictable confusion in English variations [WAS Predictable]
Predictable confusion in English variations [WAS Predictable]
Posted Sep 12, 2024 11:28 UTC (Thu) by Jandar (subscriber, #85683)In reply to: Predictable confusion in English variations [WAS Predictable] by NYKevin
Parent article: A mess in the Python community
>> You are correct in that the British people are not a majority of the English speaking world population, but the same can be said about the English speaking USA citizens.
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> I never said they were. I'm not claiming that any national variety of English is "correct." That was, in fact, the whole point of my comment.
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> I never said they were. I'm not claiming that any national variety of English is "correct." That was, in fact, the whole point of my comment.
I never said anything about correctness of some English variant. My point was that neither the UK nor the USA variant is proven to be spoken by the majority of English speaking people.
> > Are there any statistics about the distribution of variants of English?
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> I linked to them on Wikipedia upthread. If you want something more authoritative than that, you'll have to find it yourself.
In this article is the number of English speaking people per country but no information about the differences or similarities of the language between the groups.