What language do you speak best?
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma I had to check the definition of "native language". Conclusion: By the literal description as given by dictionary.com, German does qualify as that. However, given that it is also considered synonymous to "first language", I am not entirely sure what the actual intent of the dictionary editor was, as I would not consider it my first language...
Generally, the use of the terms "native language" and "first language" in English seems very fuzzy and ill-considered. -
@mdione Apologies for the silly joke: I’m pretending that “Other” is a language.
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It’d be very interesting to do a proper survey with a representative sample and an open set of languages!
@rauschma I think you can add as many as you want?
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma EN:GB, as it happens.
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@rauschma *se ofende en español*
@NullTheFool ¡Disculpe! Tenía que elegir: https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma/117430069059928752
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma
5400 votes, c'est probablement le sondage qui a le plus de votes dans le fediverse jusqu'ici -
@resmo Bin immer wieder überrascht wie gut Schweizerdeutsch klingt und wie wenig ich verstehe! Deutsche Dialekte nehmen gefühlt stark ab (ich spreche auch Bayerisch), aber in der Schweiz ist ja sogar viel Fernsehen in Schweizerdeutsch.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma typescript
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma But I also get by in French.
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@rauschma I had to check the definition of "native language". Conclusion: By the literal description as given by dictionary.com, German does qualify as that. However, given that it is also considered synonymous to "first language", I am not entirely sure what the actual intent of the dictionary editor was, as I would not consider it my first language...
Generally, the use of the terms "native language" and "first language" in English seems very fuzzy and ill-considered.@wfk True! I thought they were the same, but "first language" seems like an overall better/clearer term.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
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@rauschma I think you can add as many as you want?
@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 Spanish here
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@fartnuggets Definitely a global language!
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@rauschma clumping *all* of the other language into one category pretty much guarantees it's going to be the largest one!
@rauschma still, reality is apparently proving me wrong
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It’d be very interesting to do a proper survey with a representative sample and an open set of languages!
@rauschma
It can allow more options, but I believe that that has to be enabled by the instance admin. -
@wfk True! I thought they were the same, but "first language" seems like an overall better/clearer term.
@rauschma for me, German is "second language" by a very thin margin...
Things get confusing when you are born in one country, grow up in another, live on a site with a third language in active use, your parents natively speak one language but have been using another on a daily basis for years.
It seems that many implicit assumptions of many (monolingual) native English speakers start falling apart at that point. -
What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma Dutch
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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 supposedly the most spoken by first language are 1. Mandarin Chinese 2. Spanish 3. English ... and you missed the first two.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers
Edit: omitted the first two and included nos. 21 and 22. "Other" would get a lot more votes if poll-takers were representative of the global population.
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What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!@rauschma@fosstodon.org Chinese (Simplified Han Script)
