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jealousminarchist 19 points ago +19 / -0

French with the elongated vowels, german with all the spitting, italian with the double channel transmission with all the hand waving.

The "more than some" means nothing. English is definitely worse than, say, sign language for sure. But where does it rank in a list of all languages? May be even better than most.

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Oh_mate 10 points ago +11 / -1

It’s ridiculous we are even having this debate. Where is the English speaker when he speaks his language? Lots of English speakers live in rural areas so could speak English 24/7 and not infect anyone, Chinese big cities live 1m away from each other at all times so only need to say one sentence and have already spread more germs than the rural Englishman. It’s such a stupid think to think, let alone getting printed and paid for the column.