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thekohser
Jimbo can't work his way into Forbes as a writer, but Forbes India will publish his essay.

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World wide, the number of people speaking English is actually quite small...
-- Jimmy Wales


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Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language.
-- Wikipedia
SB_Johnny
QUOTE(thekohser @ Fri 11th June 2010, 9:29am) *

Jimbo can't work his way into Forbes as a writer, but Forbes India will publish his essay.

QUOTE
World wide, the number of people speaking English is actually quite small...
-- Jimmy Wales


QUOTE
Approximately 375 million people speak English as their first language.
-- Wikipedia


So the Ego of the Jimbo outsizes the Amount of Anglophones?

I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
milowent
"English today is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish.[30][31] However, when combining native and non-native speakers it is probably the most commonly spoken language in the world."

i would not make investment decisions based on jimbo's ridiculous essay.
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