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anonymous-user

54 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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killingjoker said:
She has a face like a bulldog licking p*ss of a thistle.
I had no idea thistles could piss.

xRIEx

8,180 posts

148 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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jamoor said:
xRIEx said:
In terms of the internet, it very much is true: almost all (if not all) major programming languages are based on English keywords (even if they're not the actual words).

But please, put forward your counterpoint to Moonhawk's assertion smile
Well, I'd love to know the percentage of the worlds population that are programmers?

China use a completely different version of the internet to the rest of the world.

The counterpoint is that you can't go to virtually anywhere in the world and find an english speaker quickly.
0.26%, approximately.

Chinese users can access a heavily censored internet, but it's not completely different. Their first service was not TCP/IP (which is going back over 20 years) but is now I believe.

That may be true, but I would suggest that you could, on aggregate, go virtually anywhere in the world and find an English speaker more quickly than any other given language.

jamoor

14,506 posts

215 months

Saturday 21st January 2017
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xRIEx said:
0.26%, approximately.

Chinese users can access a heavily censored internet, but it's not completely different. Their first service was not TCP/IP (which is going back over 20 years) but is now I believe.

That may be true, but I would suggest that you could, on aggregate, go virtually anywhere in the world and find an English speaker more quickly than any other given language.
Chinese don't use Google, Youtube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter

They don't use Whatsapp, Paypal, Amazon, App store, Google Play Store.

They use the same network though.