What language do you speak best?
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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 fwiw i lol'd
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@rauschma two reasons you have to take your result with a big grain of salt:
* the question is in English, so many (most?) people that speak those languages might not be able to read it, or even filter out the language entirely.
* even with 1.8k boosts (!!!), you might not reach all the fediverse[1]
* (The Spanish Inquisition reason) not everyone like answering polls
@mdione For sure! It’s surprisingly difficult to do surveys well. (But even in failing, I always learn a lot.
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@grinka I recently took a quick look at Ukrainian and it looks really interesting! Well, there are seven cases (compared to German’s four cases) but the spelling seemed nicely phonetic (simpler than Russian, AFAICT).
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@noellabo Interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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@rauschma fwiw i lol'd
@virtulis OK, good! Humor is so tricky, I especially in writing. There were also a few self-identified Otherians in the replies—which made me chuckle.
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@virtulis OK, good! Humor is so tricky, I especially in writing. There were also a few self-identified Otherians in the replies—which made me chuckle.
@rauschma oh I absolutely do identify as Other and love to finally be represented!
note: "Otherian" generally refers to people living in or coming from Other, however when referring to language and culture of Other people the correct term is indeed "Other".
(this is also an attempt at humor)
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@DennisKuester Kann sein, dass sich das mittlerweile geändert hat, aber nach Musk bei Twitter war das Mastodon-Wachstum in Frankreich ziemlich groß. Ich habe aber leider keine guten Quellen dazu gefunden!
@rauschma Alles klar, klingt zumindest plausibel.
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@rauschma oh I absolutely do identify as Other and love to finally be represented!
note: "Otherian" generally refers to people living in or coming from Other, however when referring to language and culture of Other people the correct term is indeed "Other".
(this is also an attempt at humor)
@virtulis Random Other-related thought: I love trains and follow the Rail Baltica project with great interest. I hope Europe does much more with trains in the future—they are such a great way to travel.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma I I wish you would have used “mother tongue” instead of native language.
After living in Canada for the last 23 years I now consider english my native language instead of my original mother tongue: Arabic -
@rauschma I I wish you would have used “mother tongue” instead of native language.
After living in Canada for the last 23 years I now consider english my native language instead of my original mother tongue: Arabic@elie True! Terminology is hard. When writing the post, I hadn’t considered all of the aspects of someone speaking a language: Is it the only language they speak? Is it their first language? Is it the language they speak best? Is it maybe not spoken at all (=sign language)? Etc.
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@elie True! Terminology is hard. When writing the post, I hadn’t considered all of the aspects of someone speaking a language: Is it the only language they speak? Is it their first language? Is it the language they speak best? Is it maybe not spoken at all (=sign language)? Etc.
@elie What I’m interested in is which language people speak best. I’ll edit the post.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Suomi!
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!Canadian, Eh....
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Other: Netherlandic. (I don't like the misnomer "Dutch")
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma italian
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Oh, there was an Other option too. the actual answer is (Nynorsk) Norwegian, not English
