Talk:Italian

What on earth is this line supposed to mean?

Italian is widely spoken, but is not one of the "Big Four" major languages (Mandarin, English, Spanish and German).

Spanish and English and the third and fourth most spoken languages in the world respectively (after Chinese and Hindi) [1], but German is only twelth (behind those four, plus Indonesian, Arabic, Portuguese, Benglali, Russian, French and Japanese). German not only has fewer native speakers than those languages, it is also far less widespread than, say, Arabic or French. The reference to "major" languages in this article seems pointless to me, but if we're going to keep it perhaps it should refer to the five RL UN languages (English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Spanish)? Thoughts? Aridd 09:15, 11 June 2006 (GMT)

Since there are apparently no comments on this, I'm going to "be bold" and remove it. Aridd 07:57, 20 June 2006 (GMT)