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Retric01/17/20254 repliesview on HN

2/3 of the global population doesn’t speak English.


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JumpCrisscross01/17/2025

TikTok content is mostly visual. My YouTube shorts are frequently foreign language with AI subtitles.

Also, TikTok is banned in India and—ironically—China [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_TikTok

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gkbrk01/17/2025

English is literally the most commonly spoken language in the world. No language in the world will fit your criteria if you want more than two thirds of the global population to speak it.

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lelanthran01/17/2025

That doesn't sound accurate. Did you mean as a first language?

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shortrounddev201/17/2025

As their first language, perhaps

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