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wow

https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01JC6G2P00A6K9RFWXQTYBSNX4

screenshot of the following text on some webpage: “There are approximately 33 billion bilingual people worldwide. That’s nearly half the population.”
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mcc

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@hikari if u speak four languages u count as 4 people

Saagar Jha

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@mcc @hikari Unfortunately I think some of the people I meet are bad enough at communicating that they would count as a fractional person

mcc

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@saagar @hikari Oh oh OH that's me!

1 English
1/2 Spanish
1/2 Toki Pona * 1/2 (Toki Pona is small)
1/10 German
1/10 Japanese
1/40 French
Mandarin… Trace quantities

= 1.9751 humans

Saagar Jha

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@mcc @hikari I mean yes except these people are like your list if it had one of those items not including the first one

it's Kanbaru again 🌟

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not many people know this but we bilinguals are so good at being multiple language speakers that we actually outnumber the entire human population several times over

it's Kanbaru again 🌟

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it's not a story the monolinguals would tell you

Saagar Jha

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@hikari “Is it possible to learn this power?”

“Not from Duolingo”

it's Kanbaru again 🌟

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@saagar THANK YOU