18 year old article. This also again notes religious complaints about the publisher without noting any religious complaints about Ethnologue itself. The only complaints about Ethnologue are that it may overcount or undercount languages, which is a practically unsolvable issue (and also secular).

In the future, please READ SOURCES BEFORE LINKING THEM and then explain them in the post. I enjoy reading them and responding myself but it's a pain for other users that don't want to read multiple articles per post only to realize they are irrelevant or don't support your points. In the future, I will just remind you to read sources before citing them instead of reading them for you

First article does not mention anything about Ethnologue's sources. Second article mentions it once to say that Ethnologue does provide sources but for some pages you have to request the sources from Ethnologue. I don't think it's an actual problem.

This casts further doubt on your Esperanto abilities. Please read and translate the longer sentence I provided to prove that you aren't reading from google translate or just speaking spanish (again)

Blatant Esperantist puff piece with no validity

https://rgl.gg/Public/Match?m=15984&r=40 followed by getting picked up by froyo

You should stay because even though people are sometimes rude to you, I still believe that there are a large number of users that like reading your posts (including me!)

Ethnologue is neither Christian nor colonial. Their publisher is Christian, but you would need to find evidence of that affecting Ethnologue for it to be relevant. The Washington Post article isn't relevant. Some people thinking that SIL translators are religiously or politically biased really has nothing to do with Ethnologue (which is widely accepted to be a high quality and generally unbiasaed source).

You claim there are problems with Ethnologue citing sources yet provide no source for your own claim. Curious

Also, please provide an example of you speaking Esperanto. You could translate the sentence "ｉｍ ｓｏｒｒｙ ｉｍ ｎｏｔ ｇｏｏｄ ｉ ａｐｏｌｏｇｉｚｅ ｆｏｒ ｍｙ ｅｇｏ ｐｌｅａｓｅ ｆｏｒｇｉｖｅ ｍｅ, ｉｍ ｊｕｓｔ ｅｕｒｏｐｅｅａｎ" and record yourself speaking it in Esperanto. I think that would be convincing evidence for the users of this forum.

Why didn't you read your own sources? They could have corrected your assumption that Americans are by default native English speakers. I think it's cruel and hurtful of you to call us dishonest when you have spent six threads insisting you speak Esperanto and yet refuse to provide any evidence

Yes you did. Both sources are about American adults [1]. You are lying to the good and honest users of this website

You are still assuming that Americans are by default native English speakers

Your reply is wrong and irrelevant in any context you read his post

I provided a source and the list of most spoken languages is very easy to find on the site (took me under 20 seconds blind). Please attempt to check sources yourself before disputing them

The CIA World Factbook is a very reliable and highly regarded source

A larger group of people does not necessarily refer to the entire population of the world, as you quoted me saying. You need to read posts before replying to them

I said nothing about tf2 youtubers. Again, please read posts before replying to them

Yes you did

Also, could you please provide a sample of you speaking Esperanto? You're speaking Spanish in the link you provided and it makes me doubt your honesty :\

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/673716307090210828/1181372276495626240/in-s3e5-chicanery-of-better-call-saul-during-chucks-rant-he-v0-1ok3n0zq0nea1.png?ex=6580d1ab&is=656e5cab&hm=ab662d90bd7c0ef91e30fb159ecdeac33d10cc2f354717b15e492b658db42c76&;

this is not how you calculate the number of speakers of a language, both ethnologue and the cia world factbook report that english is the most widely spoken language in the world by a large margin.

you also missed his point completely lol. it's not about the total number of speakers in the world, it's about the pool of people you want to talk to. in the tf2 community, this pool is mostly made up of people that speak english, so it's the most useful language to learn

edit: got sniped lol but also i find it really funny that you assumed every american speaks english as their first language. assuming all indians speak the same language is even more egregious

https://www.teamfortress.tv/63691/major-tf2-update-for-10-9-23-scream-fortress-xv#14 try this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/673716307090210828/1178088821447983204/01.png?ex=6574dfb6&is=65626ab6&hm=aecab1a55b672a8944209ecd86dadcff45c3dbe1880c34e897c14c593721734e&;

I Rahmessage my TL if I'm not going to be there for scrims

who?

why did you expect this?