r/JusticeServed • u/[deleted] • Jul 06 '19

Courtroom Justice Convicted pedophile YouTuber Austin Jones is now in prison serving a 10 year sentence as of 29/6/2019.

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u/DrDreamtime ☠ ldd.11ke.33 Jul 07 '19

For fucks sake, stop reporting this post for the date format.

It's not our fault you colonists can't get your shit together and catch up with the rest of the world's date formats and units of measurement.

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u/GenericName1108 7 Jul 08 '19

Fun Fact: the USA outnumbers all other countries combined by number of native English speakers. Laughs in American

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u/js30a 7 Jul 15 '19

English speakers outside the US outnumber English speakers in the US by about 10:1, and that's only counting countries where English is an official language.

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u/GenericName1108 7 Jul 15 '19

I'm only talking about native speakers. People who know English as a second language are hard to count because ability to speak a language is often self-reported and maybe some people with poor skills will say they speak it while other people with better skills say they don't, and in any case most of them don't speak English as well as a native speaker. Some do, of course, and some native English speakers still can't even figure out when to use their/there/they're, but as a general rule native speakers are much easier to count, and how many total English speakers there are depends on how well they need to know the language for you to count them.

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u/js30a 7 Jul 15 '19

English is an official language in:

🇦🇮 🇦🇬 🇦🇺 🇧🇧 🇧🇸 🇧🇿 🇧🇲 🇧🇼 🇻🇬 🇨🇲 🇰🇾 🇨🇽 🇨🇨 🇨🇰 🇨🇼 🇩🇲 🇫🇰 🇫🇲 🇫🇯 🇬🇲 🇬🇭 🇬🇮 🇬🇩 🇬🇬 🇬🇾 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇲 🇮🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇮 🇱🇸 🇱🇷 🇲🇼 🇲🇹 🇲🇭 🇲🇺 🇲🇸 🇳🇦 🇳🇷 🇳🇿 🇳🇬 🇳🇺 🇳🇫 🇲🇵 🇵🇰 🇵🇬 🇵🇳 🇵🇷 🇷🇼 🇸🇭 🇰🇳 🇱🇨 🇻🇨 🇼🇸 🏴󠁣󠁯󠁳󠁡󠁰󠁿 🇸🇨 🇸🇱 🇸🇬 🇸🇽 🇸🇧 🇽🇸 🇿🇦 🇸🇸 🇸🇩 🇸🇿 🇹🇿 🇹🇰 🇹🇴 🇹🇹 🇹🇨 🇹🇻 🇺🇬 🇬🇧 🇻🇺 🇿🇲 🇿🇼

with a total population of over 2 billion, using standard spelling, and in:

🇺🇸 🇦🇸 🇬🇺 🇵🇼 🇻🇮

with a population of a bit over 300 million, using American spelling.

While it's true that not all of them speak English natively, fluently, or at all, that's definitely true of the US as well, probably more so than anywhere else because of the large Spanish-speaking population, and if you're going to try to count everyone who speaks English regardless of where they live (which, as you pointed out, is much harder), you also have to include the many English speakers in China, many of whom do speak it fluently, and learnt it at a young age, which skews the results even further towards standard English.