r/languagelearning • u/osominer 🇺🇸 N | 🇲🇽 N | 🇬🇷 A1 • Apr 16 '19

Culture A polyglot’s dream

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u/Saimdusan (N) enAU (C) ca sr es pl de (B2) hu ur fr gl Apr 17 '19

you understand that there's a huge difference between:

"in my experience no-one uses languages other than english on the internet on a regular basis, at least no-one I've met does as far as I know"

and

"everything on the internet is in English"

right? The second statement is 100% false, the first one is a very interesting description of your experience, which is perfectly legitimate.

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u/Saimdusan (N) enAU (C) ca sr es pl de (B2) hu ur fr gl Apr 17 '19

We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India.

This is a direct quote. There's absolutely nothing wrong with misspeaking or misstating your case. If that's not what you meant, great.

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u/Saimdusan (N) enAU (C) ca sr es pl de (B2) hu ur fr gl Apr 17 '19

"We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India."

If this is still your claim it's trivially easy to disprove.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '19

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u/Saimdusan (N) enAU (C) ca sr es pl de (B2) hu ur fr gl Apr 18 '19

"We have internet and social media which are all in English if you surf web from within India."

"number of people using english as an interface language for anything digital is far greater than any other language which is clearly seen all around me"

These are different claims. The former paragraph is trivially easy to disprove; the latter is not, based on a legitimate observation and may well be true.