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From: Mark Wilden <Mark@mWilden.com>
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/19
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Michael Rubenstein wrote:
> 
> According to the World Almanac there are almost twice as many speakers
> of Mandarin (999 million) as of English (487 million).

What year was that? Those figures seem suspect. They mean that over 4.5
billion people speak neither language.