Is it my PC, or have a lot of people dropped off the map? Or, are we being sytemmaticly rubbed out? Should I watch my back? Or wear my tinfoil hat?

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eburacum45 looks like he is underwater.

DUDE! A guy in South Korea! ROCK ON!

Hiyas, kyssa! Wow, it rocks to see someone from that country I lived in that's so rarely mentioned.

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Well, color me surprised. It seems that right now, blogs are more popluar than BBs! Yesterday, BA posted on his blog a new frappr page for BAbloggers, http://www.frappr.com/badastronomyblog. In less than a day, it has 175 members. In BAUT's 2+weeks, we have only 146! And I looked through the names on the bablog page, there are only a handful of posters on both.

I wonder why the blog generates more interest than the BB for this type of thing!

edit: thanks, Candy. fixed it. forgot the "blog"

Your link is incorrect. The count is at 246 now.

http://www.frappr.com/badastronomyblog

281.

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So why is that frappr so much more popular than ours?

(.....thinking I was in the cool crowd but not so sure anymore....)

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I finally added myself. We're at 147 now.

Spacemad's here as well! I just discovered this map today & have been reading all the posts in this thread - I got through 5 pages before jumping to the end!
I had no trouble at all (except I didn't understand the "shout out"!) & I've even posted a photo I took of myself while trying out the self portrait mode on my digicam during the summer.

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Most people on the BLOG are in the US....

And the map is centered on the US too ....

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A) Is that such a bad thing?

B) There's a reason for that. For one, outside of the UK, America is the largest nation of American-speaking population. (I say American, 'cause we all know that American is different than English).

C) Who cares about Britain anyways? (Seriously, just meant in jest; there are several people from the UK, though.)


Also, America has a very very large population. As a result, you can bet that there would be several people from there.

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According to The Eyes of Nye, the US is the third most populous country in the world. (At least, that's what I remember him saying, and I'll admit I haven't checked his figures.) Therefore, logically, the majority of posters to an English-language board and readers of an English-language blog would be Americans, given that neither of the more populous countries have English as a major language.

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What are the other two countries, India and China? Due to all the US outsourcing, India is getting pretty good with their English. I bet it will be their second language in the very near future.

I didn't know that India had a large Portuguese heritage until just recently. A lot of the people that work for our vendors have very "Latin" names. Interesting.

[edit for spelling]

The region of Goa, India, speakes Portuguese. It was the main Portuguese Empire outpost in the Indian subcontinent.

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Those Portuguese sure got around, didn't they? My friend from Japan said they were a big influence in his country, too.

Poor Argos, you just look so lonely down there (on the map).

Um, Candy, India has about 200 languages. At least, about 200 languages considered "major" by its standards. While English is the international language of business, it would take a lot of outsourcing to make a population larger than that of the US to have English as a major language.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Gillianren, this link for India (wikipedia) states the Republic of India, is the second most populous country in the world and is the world's largest democracy, with over one billion people speaking about 800 distinct languages.

Off to the side, it also adds that the Official Language is Hindi, English, and "other" official languages.

I guess English is already an "Associate" Official Language.

Okay, I'll concede that, but I'll also point out that it wasn't outsourcing but colonization that made it so. I would further suspect that, at this point, the majority of English speakers are in the cities, and most people in India who speak it only do so as a second language.

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"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Based on my experiances traveling to other countries, I'll bet you'll find more Indians who can speak two or more languages, than you'll find in America.

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