Latest comment: 16 years ago3 comments2 people in discussion
The Falklands colour is wrong, undoubtedly should be red. Also, no data is provided for the South American countries; one may doubt if the knowledge of English is the same in say Uruguay and Bolivia. Apcbg (talk) 20:28, 15 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 16 years ago6 comments2 people in discussion
South america is missing because the source only has 2 countries, I guess?
(Paraguay is 1.4/4152 and Bolivia is 0, in the source.) I don't think I could find data for every country, but I know good places to look: Panama, Chile, Argentina, Panama — all should have low red tone. Colombia might have a high blue, too. The rest I'm not so sure about, pretty sure they don't have a substantial english speaking subset. — robbiemuffinpagetalk14:27, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
:) Hey man, it`s your thing, and it looks great to me! (but Sweden should be very different if you are only counting primary language speakers. Sweden is the same as Chile, 5 years of school and billions of dollars in advertising is the only reason they understand a word of it.) — robbiemuffinpagetalk17:34, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Uh, one could make a native speakers one. I wouldn't criticise Sweden or Chile for that though - 30 years, many billions, 8 years of school and I can't get out five words in a depanneur before the cashier switches to English. :( Anyways, if you can find speakers numbers, I can incorporate them, just post them here. WilyD18:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
:) I think I saw the joke you are referring to ... hte faux commercial about how the language is dying beecause no one knows how to speak it? — robbiemuffinpagetalk17:58, 26 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 16 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion
Dear WilyD, maybe the new version of your map shows Singapore (hardly discernible as it might be at that scale) but it clearly fails to show the Falklands in red as indeed confirmed by the source I gave above; you may also see the 2001 Falklands census data showing that an overwhelming majority (some 80%) of the population comprises people born on the Falklands, the UK and UK overseas territories, Commonwealth countries, Ireland, USA or other English speaking countries. Apcbg (talk) 19:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
This is first language english speakers data. The plot shows total knowledge of English data. These are not the same quantities. WilyD20:03, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Sure. Total-knowledge percentage is greater than first-language speakers one, so if the former itself (say at 80%) gives a (200, 50, 55) variety of red, then the latter would give a red colour too. Apcbg (talk) 20:25, 25 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
As it is now, the map disagrees with the article it seeks to illustrate, so one of the two ought to be brought in line with the other. The article claims (no sources cited) 100% knowledge of English for the islands, 1,991 out of 1,991 persons. Apcbg (talk) 05:58, 26 June 2008 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 15 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion
First, I have to say what a bad and incorrect map this is. The colours are just way off what could be on a decent statistical map. Why is a 1997 poll provided for Estonia?? It says 83% of Estonians have no knowledge of English, while Eurobarometer 2006 says that 46% of Estonians do speak english. Please correct this map, currently showing that Estonians are the least English-speaking nation in Europe. H2ppyme (talk) 09:24, 16 November 2008 (UTC)Reply
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