What language do you speak best? (Hypothesis: There are many French & German speakers in the Fediverse.)
Boosts appreciated!
French15%
German28%
English30%
(Other)25%
Replying to @rauschma@fosstodon.org
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!
Replying to @rauschma@fosstodon.org
@rauschma other: Klingon
Replying to @hengstenberg@nrw.social
@hengstenberg @rauschma There are indeed native speakers of that, who are not Klingons!
Replying to @irina@wandering.shop
@irina @hengstenberg @rauschma
How did you check if he is not a Klingon?
Replying to @sjaakkeuvelaar@mastodon.nl
@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
Replying to @irina@wandering.shop
@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.