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- From: vasc@camoes.rnl.ist.utl.pt (VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA(leic))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: I never ATE PC's :O)
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 13:52:13 GMT
- Organization: Instituto Superior Tecnico
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- roue (boc4@woodlawn.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : In article <4kghd0$rkm@kdcol.kdcol.com>,
- : Kerry Hales <maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com> wrote:
- : >
- : >David Coombes (u3f38@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk) wrote:
- : >: VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA (l42786@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
- : >
- : >: ~ BY THE WAY I AM PORTUGUESE YOU KNOW!
- : >: ~ THERE ARE 500 MILLION PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SPEAKING PERSONS IN THE WORLD.
- : >: ~ IT'S THE WORLD'S 3rd MOST SPEAKEN LANGUAGE...
- : >
- : >: Are you sure? I know Spanish is widely spoken, but Portugese is AFAIK a
- : >: different language, with similarities to Spanish. I do not know the correct
- : >: order, but the top 4 languages spoken are
- : >
- : >: English
- : >: Mandarin Chinese
- : >: French
- : >: Spanish
- : >
- : >: ...unless someone can tell me different.
- : >
- : >: --
- : >I hate to break the news to this guy, but portuguses is not the third most
- : >spoken language.
- : >
- : >Chinese is first, but if you count all the dialects, it is probably 4th.
- : >
- : >English is second, Spanish is third, French is fourth.
- : >
- : >Source: U.S. news and world reports.
- : >
- : >
- : >--
- : >==========================================================================
- : >maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com
- : >http://www.kdcol.com/~maverick/
- : >ftp> ftp.kdcol.com anonymous--- email passwd
- : >Ftp directory /users/m/maverick
- : >Amiga Links and Links to Spain.
- : >==========================================================================
- : >
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- :
- :
- : perhaps by "third most spoken language" our friend is referring not
- : to the number of people who speak portugese, but the volume of babble
- : which pours fourth... in which case, by his own example, he may be right.
-
- There are more people speaking natively (1st language) French than Spanish
- ?? I don't think so...
-
- I mentioned the European dialects! There probably are more people
- speaking the 10 or so Chinese languages than English!!!!
- (English is only widely used has a 2nd language or so...)
-
- Besides, i think there are more people in:
- - Portugal
- - Brazil (big)
- - Angola
- - Mozambique
- + A couple of small countries than all the French in the World
- Not counting the 10 million portuguese in France, Portuguese represent
- 1/3 the population of Luxembourg ...
-
- Or i'm seeing too much TV, it's where i saw this, but your sources don't
- seem much better :) Remember that computer epilepsy thing ;)
-