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I read that as almost English but it could be almost any language.

Without these almost lanugage identifiers, we'd have to type http://74.125.21.113 to visit Google.

I'd never heard the term before this question though, so I wouldn't think it very widespread.

The clue is in the context, where it says

more formally referred to as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

a URL looks like this:

http://ell.stackexchange.com/postsa/110494

I read that as almost English but it could be almost any language.

Without these almost lanugage identifiers, we'd have to type http://74.125.21.113 to visit Google.

I'd never heard the term before this question though, so I wouldn't think it very widespread.

The clue is in the context, where it says

more formally referred to as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

a URL looks like this:

http://ell.stackexchange.com/posts/110494

I read that as almost English but it could be almost any language.

Without these almost lanugage identifiers, we'd have to type http://74.125.21.113 to visit Google.

I'd never heard the term before this question though, so I wouldn't think it very widespread.

The clue is in the context, where it says

more formally referred to as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

a URL looks like this:

http://ell.stackexchange.com/a/110494
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I read that as almost English but it could be almost any language.

Without these almost lanugage identifiers, we'd have to type http://74.125.21.113 to visit Google.

I'd never heard the term before this question though, so I wouldn't think it very widespread.

The clue is in the context, where it says

more formally referred to as Uniform Resource Locators (URLs)

a URL looks like this:

http://ell.stackexchange.com/posts/110494