Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5275700-20190104170704/@comment-5956954-20190105070320

Jackninja5DipperGravityFalls wrote: Cheeseskates wrote: the most widely used language in the world, my friend. you'll be grateful someday It's second, m8. Mandarin Chinese has 1.1 billion. =] Though I am aware of everyone's capabilities of research here, I wanted to put it here so some don't *have* to or refuse to do critical thinking.

Mandarin Chinese is the most used language but only because of China's population. Mandarin Chinese does not spread far from its motherland and is not "widely" used.

English, however, is used in a variety of countries, many of which have as an official and majorly used language natively. The list of countries is even grander if we include countries having English as the official but minorly used language.

Furthermore, English is the most studied language in the world according to Point 7, where this chart shows the number of learners is 1.5 billion people, 20% of the world's population.

It's pretty fascinating. Should probably go back on topic for this thread, though, since it's not about English. Point being is to be glad you know and speak English as a first language. It's a blessing in disguise.

The idea for this experiment is good, but I'm curious on what FANDOM expects to see. Would regular chatters be angry, sad, neutral? With the advent and widespread use of w:c:dev:DiscordIntegrator, would people mind the lack of Wikia's chat service with such an alternative (among other confounding variables)? Is the lack of a chat meant to boost general forum activity?

Knowing the purpose of the experiment and the expected result of it would be interesting itself, though I expect to also see this being answered after the end of February.