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[–] Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

333 million Americans, 67 million Brits, 26 million Australians.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

1.4 billion Indians. So what?

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They're talking about native English speakers. Did you really not get that? There are also a lot of Chinese people, try yelling that out of context, also.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

English is one of the official languages in India.

Even if only 1/10 of Indians grew up speaking it alongside Hindi or one of the other official languages (it's a pretty big and varied country), it still adds up to 140 million people, so the previous poster has a valid point.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

this post is about native accents. choose an accent (from native accents), normal, fancy or wildcard.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

sorry, I re-read your post this morning, I missed when you said "official languages" for some reason. I take your point