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Oleksandr Kupriyanchuk
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Nonsense, data manipulation+Wrong publication date Jan 2, 2011

That mechanical comparison ("Chinese users" vs "English speakers") is grossly incorrect .

The figures (even the most precise ones) do not tell the whole story. By the way, I would doubt even that statistics.

Also, an increasingly large number of "Chinese users" become and will become "users of non-Chinese speaking Internet" (if not "English speakers" themselves!).

And how many "English speakers" w... See more
That mechanical comparison ("Chinese users" vs "English speakers") is grossly incorrect .

The figures (even the most precise ones) do not tell the whole story. By the way, I would doubt even that statistics.

Also, an increasingly large number of "Chinese users" become and will become "users of non-Chinese speaking Internet" (if not "English speakers" themselves!).

And how many "English speakers" will become "Chinese speakers", not to mention "Chinese users"? Not even close that many.

And who are "Chinese mandarins" who "issued a decree"? This is the language of the Chinese Empire


Such news articles should have been published on April 1. ▲ Collapse
 
Spencer Allman
Spencer Allman
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:23
Finnish to English
surely it will be Albanian? Jan 3, 2011

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karcsy
karcsy
Local time: 23:23
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And who are "Chinese mandarins" who "issued a decree"? Jan 4, 2011

Alexander Kupriyanchuk wrote:

And who are "Chinese mandarins" who "issued a decree"? This is the language of the Chinese Empire



You misunderstood the text, that decree is for PROC (mainland China) press and publication only and not the whole world.
 


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