Comment by Retric

Comment by Retric 13 hours ago

That’s at all, there are only ~380 million native English speakers.

Of that 1/3 (of the global population) a significant percentage have extremely limited skills, though the threshold is above knowing a few random words.

adriancr 13 hours ago

> Including people who speak English as a second language, estimates of the total number of Anglophones vary from 1.5 billion to 2 billion

wikipedia. You are a bit off...

As for native you have US+UK+Canada+Australia+NZ+Ireland. So more then your 380M.

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Retric 13 hours ago

~47 million Americans aren’t native English speakers having immigrated from a non English speaking country.

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- switchbak 12 hours ago
  
  Who cares if they're native English speakers or not, as long as they can converse in the language?
  
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  Retric 12 hours ago
  
  shortrounddev2 who brought the topic up without knowing the numbers.
  
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- adriancr 13 hours ago
  
  Source?
  
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  Retric 12 hours ago
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_immigration_stat...
  
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shortrounddev2 13 hours ago

If they are native English speakers, then how do they have extremely limited skills?

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Retric 12 hours ago

I added clarification, but “that 1/3” refers to my prior mention of 1/3 as in 1/3 of the global population.

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edoceo 12 hours ago

American education.

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