Because there has never been a major war on American soil in the past 100 years, and barely any even before that. The US managed to abuse the destroyed economies and other physical damages of the other world powers to become the biggest world power themselves. Because of this they were the biggest world power and biggest player of the scientific community during the creation of the internet and long-range communication. This in turn means that most international media is English.
The Dutch translate almost nothing. Almost everything gets either subtitles, such as movies, or simply left as it is, such as video games. Thanks to this almost all Dutch speak and write fluent English and are highly active in English internet sites compared to other European nations. Take for example the Germans. Everything there gets translated into German. Movies, video games, cartoons, everything. As a result, there are almost no Germans on the international websites.

Replace Dutch with Swedish and there you have it.

I don't see anything bad in those words O_o
and coccic - if I read it correctly(another bug in english for example, lol) should be koksik. no questions asked about how to pronounce this, right?

I also think phonetic writing is much better. for example:

nou kueschns eskd ebaut hau to pronaunse this, rait?
same reason people use IE

"kueschns" = Questions

SO UGLY

Letters add nuances. They ease reading. Try getting a dyslectic to understand what you're writing when you remove letters like that - it won't work.

kueschuns

kwestyuns?

Kanyewestion?

Please tell me you are joking. This is ridiculously difficult to make sense of.

yes well this specific sentence sucks, but look at spanish, it's sooooo easy to learn

also lol: poll was at 1-10-1 with 8-83-8 percentage that adds to 99. I voted, now it's 1-11-1, and 8-85-8, tallied to 101

You mean like Hebrew...?

no lol, hebrew is very very difficult to learn it is so hard that we actually get tested on it in highschool =\ we learn hebrew in school for 10 years and still nobody talks well. nobody cares tho - spoken hebrew is much easier. but spanish - is freakishly easy. I speak half-fluent spanish and I never learnt if except by TV.

Oh, I thought you were sarcastic due to the high amount of O's in sooooooo. =p

Spanish is really easy to learn! There are tons of different tenses to learn, but most of them follow strict formulas, their irregulars are clear cut, and endings used to signify tenses repeat a lot, but you just use context clues to tell which one they're speaking in. Not to mention like Shos said, if you try to spell almost any word using pronunciation, it's gonna be right. You can take up to five years of Spanish at my school. In Spanish 1/2/3, I ranked in the top three out of about 60 kids (I held on to #1 all of Spanish 1, lol). Not taking it next year, though. Spanish 4 is pretty much a literature class.

I also tried to learn German one time, for around three months, and it's very easy when you know english already. except...all the damned words =\

eh ninja'd by yaya.
well he's right.

Deutsch is sehr schlecht! Ich sprechen eine wönig Deutsch.

I think I just said that German is very easy and that I speak a little, but I could also have said that German is very funny. =p

Pronouncing German is very easy, spelling isn't as hard as it looks...but der/die/das...

Deutsch ist ganz geil!

Nein, and du hast are the only German words I know. =P

I have to agree with Yaya on all points about Spanish, though.

I'm pretty sure Jazz said he takes either Chinese or Japanese at his school. I wanna hear him weigh in on this.

Well, I learned some basic Chinese a while ago, and I find that it's kinda hard for beginners to learn it at the beginning because of writing and pronunciation, but as you learn more of it, it becomes easier.
And Japanese is pretty difficult at first because the order of the subject, object and verb are different. Also, when you start trying to pronounce it, you usually sound like a weeaboo until you get more fluent.

First off, I like the title change.

Funny story about Japanese. While we were in Europe, my cousin was talking all Japanese in this one store, so this guy comes up and says KONNICHIWA!! So he says in French something like "I don't speak Japanese". The guy leaves and brings in another guy. He says Bonjour, so my cousin starts speaking italian. We were in italy, so they started talking and in the middle, he switches to spanish. then to english. ahhh good times.  

which one is the one with 4000 letters? O_o

from my understanding, chinese is seriously hard. for example, you can havce a word for 'leaf', and then if you take that word, twice, and the word for 'ground' or something and put them on each other in a certain way, it creates the word 'tree', and if you take like 4 times the word tree and combine it somehow, you get forest or something...I mean wut?

Lol. It's because it's not so much an alphabet as a pictograph system.

Well, Chinese has over 4000 different characters, and Japanese has 3 writing systems...