• enki@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There are over one billion English speakers on this planet and only 1/3 of them are American, where the rhyme originates. So an American asking someone who has never heard the song before where they’re from is a valid question for the other 700,000 English speaking humans from the 8+ countries where English is the most common language.

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      1 year ago

      The billion figure is including non-native speakers who mostly don’t learn rhymes. Also, a billion minus 1/3 is 700,000? Let’s put it this way. If I posted about a rhyme in French, would it make sense to say “Oh, really you don’t know this saying? Where are you from?” Any place that doesn’t speak french is the answer.

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        1 year ago

        Well maybe he wanted to know if this was a thing in for example the UK, NZ, Australia, South Africa, India, etc. That’s a valid question. Also, maybe give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant 700,000,000.

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        1 year ago

        Well maybe he wanted to know if this was a thing in for example the UK, NZ, Australia, South Africa, India, etc. That’s a valid question. Also, maybe give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he meant 700,000,000.