LordMayor@piefed.socialtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Despite being true, the sentence "Most people are Chinese." sounds weird when spoken out loud.English
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4 days ago“Most” would imply more than half which is not true of China or India.
“Most people are Asian,” would be true.
The definitions you link all include a meaning of “most” that is “a majority of”. Context matters.
“China has the most people.” Here it means the greatest quantity.
“Most people are Chinese.” Here it means a majority of people are Chinese.
That’s just how English works.
Also, India has the most people, not China.