[Paladin2]

NFW

Yahbutt there will no longer be any HRE French left...

[dfwgator]

Funny, when I went to Paris, it seemed everybody there spoke Arabic.

[himno hero]

What percentage is french pidgin?

[Fungi]

Nope Chinese or Arabic, maybe Ebgkish—did I spell that right?

[867V309]

We, we!

[Timpanagos1]

I would bet not.

Primarily because populations in sub-Saharan Africa will collapse, due to disease and starvation before the area could support that kind of growth.

Mandarin will most likely be the most common language, I would not be surprised to see Spanish to be more commonly spoken than English.

[Enchante]

Well the article doesn’t explain how, even at such an explosive growth rate, French speaking is supposed to overtake Mandarin Chinese (currently over one billion) or English (currently 942 million):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers

[SpaceBar]

By 2050 the average IQ will be 57.

[smokingfrog]

I know Voulez-vous coucher avec moi (ce soir)? - but it has never worked for me.

[MtnClimber]

The french will all lose their heads to the muslinms by 2050. The Germans and Scandinavians too. There will be no Swedish bikini models, only burkinis.

[Cowboy Bob]

-It is spoken in sub-Saharan Africa, one of the fastest growing-populations in the world.

What would happen if foreign aid to africa were to stop?

[Nifster]

OH yeah right...

[cynwoody]

Working in the field of software, I thank my lucky stars that I was born a native English speaker in the United States of America.

English speakers invented software.

We in the Anglosphere are supremely smart.

But we must never forget, the wogs learn fast! And cost less to hire!

[Unam Sanctam]

That would be an interesting twist.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Subsaharan populations are exploding? Aren’t they always dirt poor on the brink of famine and have an epidemic of aids?

[BuffaloJack]

Nah, there will always be more people who speak Chinese than French. The country with the most English speakers is also China, as 1/3 of the Chinese also speak English, i.e., 500 million Chinese speak English vs. 300 million Americans who mostly speak English.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

While the top languages in the world today are Mandarin, English, Spanish, and Arabic, Natixis has produced figures that show French will be number one in 35 years time.

And at that time, I'll either be dead or 84 and not giving a damn.

[GOPJ]

English is the language of commerce ... it’s the most common ‘second’ language of people who are successful the world over.

[hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998]

Newton’s Principia Mathematica was written in Latin; Einstein’s first influential papers were written in German; Marie Curie’s work was published in French. Yet today, most scientific research around the world is published in a single language, English.

Since the middle of the last century, things have shifted in the global scientific community. English is now so prevalent that in some non-English speaking countries, like Germany, France, and Spain, English-language academic papers outnumber publications in the country’s own language several times over. In the Netherlands, one of the more extreme examples, this ratio is an astonishing 40 to 1.

[Trillian]

Crazy gibberish.