[p_j_w]

>The difference between California, Texas, South Dakota, Maine, Ohio are as different as Turkey, France, Australia, Ireland, Japan

This is just so obviously not true on the surface. We all speak the same language at the very least, which isn't true for a single one of those countries you listed.

[voltaireodactyl]

Australia and Ireland certainly speak the same language as much as Maine and Texas do.

[vonwoodson]

They speak French in Louisiana, German in Amish Country, Gullah in North Carolina... Your ignorance doesn't make you correct.

[snowpid]

while clearly the Amish language is related to German, it is not German spoken in Germany. Btw, all these people can speak English.

[wddkcs]

So can many of the people in Turkey, France, Japan, etc.

Tangentially related, but how long can languages really be considered a barrier when AI translations are ubiquitous.