Stupid Olympics question
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Well I'll be damned...I never paid much attention to that until now. I remember seeing this during the Womans Opening match of Table Tennis b/w America and Korea.
Either way, it's the most important language in the world. Almost every educated foriegner takes English as a second language becuase without it, you're limited in your posibilities in international employment.
err not to mention... its all about money. Advertisers sponsoring the games are mostly American, news and media as well, all mostly english because we blow it up bigger than every body else
Originally posted by: Atomicus
It's not?
No, the asian languages are the most speaken in the world.
On the other hand, almost all major businesses speak english, it's safe to say that english is the major economic language in the world.
Supermercado
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Isn't French the official language of the Olympics? I swear I remember hearing that while watching the Olympics in some past year. I don't think it was in 1992 when they were in France, either; I was only 10 at the time and I don't think I'd remember that.
Originally posted by: Leetman
Tends to happen when your country is overpopulated to the max.
that only considers the first language spoken...i would be interested in seeing the languages most spoken by anyone (not necessarily their first language)
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Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Originally posted by: Leetman
Tends to happen when your country is overpopulated to the max.
that only considers the first language spoken...i would be interested in seeing the languages most spoken by anyone (not necessarily their first language)
I wonder how long it would take to ask every person in the world how many different languages they speak?
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Linflas
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Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
Originally posted by: Leetman
Tends to happen when your country is overpopulated to the max.
that only considers the first language spoken...i would be interested in seeing the languages most spoken by anyone (not necessarily their first language)
I wonder how long it would take to ask every person in the world how many different languages they speak?
Roughly 7392 days if I did the math right figuring 10 seconds per person non stop 24 hours per day.
mugs
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Originally posted by: Linflas
Roughly 7392 days if I did the math right figuring 10 seconds per person non stop 24 hours per day.
And in that time an entire generation of new people would have been born... yeah I think we're going to need more than one person on this.
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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Linflas
Roughly 7392 days if I did the math right figuring 10 seconds per person non stop 24 hours per day.
And in that time an entire generation of new people would have been born... yeah I think we're going to need more than one person on this.
I'll help. I'm not doing anything untill September.
I would assume they would be using a languange all of the officials understand, that seems most logical to me.
English might not be the most COMMONLY spoken language, but it is the most WIDELY spoken language.
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