What language do you speak best?
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@sjaakkeuvelaar I don't know if that person is a Klingon! I do know that some human children have been brought up as native speakers of Klingon. Who this person may or may not be one of.
@hengstenberg @rauschma@irina @sjaakkeuvelaar @hengstenberg @rauschma
To date, one reported case of a child being brought up to be a native speaker of Klingon. Failed, partly because insufficient pool of others to talk to, partly because the language is not yet developed enough to be used for daily tasks, and partly because the child (Alec Speers) simply refused to continue using the language once he reached about 5 years old.By comparison there are a few thousand native speakers of Esperanto.
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It’d be very interesting to do a proper survey with a representative sample and an open set of languages!
I selected English only because it was the closest to my native tongue, which is Minnesotan. Not indigenous Minnesotan, but a variant of American English that is only spoken in Minnesota.
No one from Yorkshire would recognize my language as English; and while I would recognize Yorkshirese as English, I would not comprehend most of it.
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@mdione Apologies for the silly joke: I’m pretending that “Other” is a language.
@rauschma ah, I can barely see the emoticon, I can't see what it is or what it's doing
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@rauschma
I really like the Algol family of languages, including Pascal, Modula 3, and Ada.
These days most of my actual programming is in C++, C, and Python.@brouhaha Same here! I used Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon/F in the past (among other non-Algol languages). Now almost exclusively TypeScript.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma I like my instance, and the fediverse, because it is multilingual. I’m English-speaking, but I can read and speak French. I’m slowly learning German and a bit of Spanish, mostly by osmosis. When I retire, I’ll try learning one of the indigenous languages, probably Mohawk, from my area. Perhaps Chinese or Arabic if I’m around long enough.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
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@griff
I can fill in such a survey, but I can’t create it on my Mastodon instance. -
@rauschma
It can allow more options, but I believe that that has to be enabled by the instance admin. -
@griff
I can fill in such a survey, but I can’t create it on my Mastodon instance.@rauschma@fosstodon.org
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Portuguese!
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Chinese
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!I know many Germans in weird, niche forums who write in English of a standard that puts the average pensioner, raging in the comments on a BBC news article, to shame.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!ok i choose other
for me it is
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@ellohir Nice! I can see that poll but I can’t create such a poll myself.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma je me demande combien de gens parmi les (Other) parlent polonais comme langue maternelle, je me sens en avoir vu plusieurs
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@rauschma je me demande combien de gens parmi les (Other) parlent polonais comme langue maternelle, je me sens en avoir vu plusieurs
@rauschma en effet j'ai vu beaucoup d'anglais bien sûr, et de français, d'allemand, de polonais, d'espagnol, mais aussi d'hébreu et de néerlandais. peut être c'est une métrique de la population locutrice d'une langue qui parle bien l'anglais aussi
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@rauschma en effet j'ai vu beaucoup d'anglais bien sûr, et de français, d'allemand, de polonais, d'espagnol, mais aussi d'hébreu et de néerlandais. peut être c'est une métrique de la population locutrice d'une langue qui parle bien l'anglais aussi
@rauschma relativement très peu de chinois, arabe, etc.
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@vux55 普通话还是一个方言？
@rauschma 普通话加方言，大部分中国人都是和我差不多这样的吧？台湾应该和中国差不多
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It’s also remarkable how many people speak “Other”!
EDIT: I was trying to make a joke by pretending “Other” was a language. But that clearly didn’t work.
I expected the Fediverse to have many English & German speakers and had read that it was popular in France. I wanted to check these assumptions via a survey and my instance only lets me create four options. Beyond that, I didn’t know what to expect but the replies to my initial post show just how linguistically diverse the Fediverse is!
@rauschma I know of a considerably sized spanish speaking community.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma My native language is Portuguese (Brazilian).
