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[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex

Absolutely everything is wrong in this one. English is the second most spoken language (including as secondary language behind Chinese). With Russian fourth. Considering native speakers only English is third (now behind Spanish as well) and Russian is 8th.

Hmm, I assume your stats are based on how many people speak each language. His wording was "will be more extensively spoken than any other", which to my mind means spoken in more places around the world. Isn't English still the closest the world has to an international language?