Language & Annoying Phrases

International Mother Language Day and Dangerous Dave talks about the most used language world wide, is it Chinese or English? Depends how you look at it. Plus, annoying things people say that make you roll your eyes.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deeper in the den with Dangerous Day, Happy
Language Day, or technically International Mother Language Day. It's been
celebrated since the seventies. UNESCO made it a recognized thing
in nineteen ninety nine, and there's over seven thousand languages
spoken around the world seventy one hundred and sixty four
to be exact. Almost half of the world's countries have

(00:21):
just ten of their official languages. So Babbel looked at
how many native languages there are for each one. So
just people from places that have an official language, can
you guess what number one is? Well, there's actually two
answers to this. Chinese one point three billion native speakers,
just saying Chinese lumps a bunch of dialects together, but

(00:42):
around nine hundred million of them speak Mandarin. Spanish four
hundred and eighty six million is the official language in Spain,
Mexico and most of South America. English three hundred and
eighty million. That's only third, but hang on tight for
a second. Arabic three hundred and sixty two, Hindi at
three forty five, Bengali at two thirty seven, Portuguese at
two thirty six, Russian at one hundred and forty eight

(01:03):
and Japanese one hundred and twenty three million in Londa
at one hundred and eighteen million spoken in India and Pakistan.
Different for native speakers, but the total worldwide okay, and
even in places that are not an official language, English
is actually number one, spoken by over one point five
billion people. Then it's Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and French.

(01:26):
So if you go by where there's an official language,
yes it's number three. But overall spoken language in all
areas of the world, English is number one, and I
almost understood most of it. Deeper In the two they
asked social media what statements make you roll your eyes immediately.
Some of the most popular responses include overly corporate jargon,

(01:47):
synergy bandwidth, let's circle back, or let's drill it down
and deep dive into the core metrics before we reinvent
the wheel on verbage some of the other ones. Things
that make us immediately roll our eyes when people say, elf,
I've done the research, We've always done it. That way
is not the quickest way to become extinct. I'm just
being honest, isn't that something? Jerks say? My truth? Do

(02:09):
you know who I am money can't buy happiness. You're
just too sensitive, I'm shook or that triggers me woke
as a mother. I'm not a racist, but probably shouldn't
say this, but I usually don't write reviews. Everything happens
for a reason. I think I use that one too much,
and starting with any statement with yeah no, I it's
somebody here that used to do that a lot, but

(02:30):
are they still working here? Yeah no? To me again
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