On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:37 PM Stephen J. Turnbull < turnbull.stephen...@u.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> > Are you saying that people who split infinitives are usually > > black, > > Of course not. Base rates suggest they're mostly white. > I think that's not true. According to this, English speakers in top several locations are about the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population United States: 283M India: 125M Pakistan: 108M Nigeria: 79M Philippines: 64M United Kingdom: 60M Germany: 45M US and UK (and Germany) are majority white, but the others are pretty small minorities. So by eyeball, that seems to add up to a good number more black and brown English speakers than white ones. Of course... I confess, I don't have data on infinitive splitting rates in Nigeria versus UK. -- The dead increasingly dominate and strangle both the living and the not-yet born. Vampiric capital and undead corporate persons abuse the lives and control the thoughts of homo faber. Ideas, once born, become abortifacients against new conceptions.
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