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From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Subject: Re: The imprecise use of language to deceive (was: Cloneing)
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Roger wrote:

> > If by "common language" you mean "language spoken by a larger
> > number of people", then Spanish is maybe fourth at best.
> 
> It is probably second or third to Chinese, being the second most common
> language in the US as well as being top in South America.

I believe that Hindi has more speakers than Spanish (Chinese and
English obviously do).

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