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Old July 10th 07, 02:44 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Bertie the Bunyip[_19_]
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Default Chinese (and other) pilots unable to speak English pose danger for air travel (CNN)

Mxsmanic wrote in
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David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:

Mxsmanic wrote:

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) writes:

Fair enough- but India still has over 3 times as many people
speaking Hindi as a native language than the number speaking
English as a secondary one.

Not so. There are far more than one billion speakers of English in
the world.


I didn't claim otherwise. Re-read the above.


I did. "Speaking English as a secondary one" means all speakers of
English, not just native speakers, and there are far more than one
billion such people in the world. This greatly outnumbers the number
of native speakers of Hindi. Thus, claiming the opposite--to say
nothing of claiming that there are three times as many native Hindi
speakers as English speakers--is clearly incorrect.



Wrong again, bunkruptcy boi


Bertie