International poll, so please boost for a wider sample.
How many languages can you read (and, of course, understand!) without the help of an online translator?
- > 5 (3%, 432 votes)
- 4-5 (15%, 1922 votes)
- 2-3 (62%, 7497 votes)
- 1 (18%, 2206 votes)
12057 voters. Poll end: 1 anno fa
Ellie
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Keri
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Keri • • •@kerissima
This will last a week, so there is time even for martians 😁
Dr Grace Peng
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Dr Grace Peng • • •@gspeng
void main() {
printf("I'm almost sure nobody toot in C language");
}
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Dr Grace Peng
I wouldn't be *that* sure about perl :D
like this
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Blippy the Wonder Slug (MOVED)
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla @gspeng
I've posted poetry in x86 ASM, so yeah, coding languages are languages, but I didn't count/include them for this poll. I voted 2-3 (English & German).
I hope most people follow suite, else results will be horribly skewed. Had I included coding languages, and languages I can read/speak at a child's level, it'd be well over 6+.
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Lev Petrovitch
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •Tooting #Perl poetry could be fun 😂
@GustavinoBevilacqua @gspeng
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Gary
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brocolie (tots not a vampire)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
printf("Mon aéroglisseur est plein d'anguilles.");
return 0;
}
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to brocolie (tots not a vampire) • • •@brocolie @gspeng
🤣
Terry Wallwork
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Larry Garfield
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Larry Garfield • • •@Crell
Instructions are on the billboard at Platform 9¾ at King's Cross station 😁
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Luis Crespo
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Luis Crespo • • •@lcrespom
Also Romanian.
Luis Crespo
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •⏣ (corrupted)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •>without the help of an online translator
what about offline translator or dictionaries
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to ⏣ (corrupted) • • •@xarvos
I don't think a lot of people will browse a paper dictionary, nowadays, except maybe for the few languages unsupported by google translator.
I'd count this as a +1, for the effort required.
Fred_S_at (2nd spare)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •I otherwise prefer to use DeepL
slideman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to slideman • • •@slideman @xarvos
I'm aware of the advantage of paper vs. screen (and on maps is even higher), but the most of the working places I know, mine at first, are too cluttered even for a Collins pocket Dictionary… 🥴
slideman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Caspar Fairhall
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •PA1EJO
Unknown parent • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to PA1EJO • • •@ejo60
This could be counted as a single entity, then.
Max, whispers to you too now
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Gwenaël Le Bras
in reply to Max, whispers to you too now • • •starfish
in reply to Gwenaël Le Bras • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to starfish • • •@starfish @gwenbras @StrepsipZerg
Scientificese is a totally different language 😁
Robert Brink
in reply to Max, whispers to you too now • • •Irina
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode: • • •@publicvoit
I think to make another one next week, going into more details, like languages understood: this will end next Saturday.
But feel free to make your own, if you're interested!
Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️ • • •@funcrunch
The definition of "US-American" is laudable and it's not your fault if you were born there.
I've a friend for Argentina always stating "I'm American too!".
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nomorsad
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Joris Meijer
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •mborus
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Unknown parent • • •@library_squirrel
Same for me: I can read some romance languages other than Italian (fr, es, pt, ca, oc), but when I must write them I prefer to help myself with a translator because I've a lot of issues with the correct orientation of accents.
orinbot reboostoot bot
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@ciccillo
Ti sei spiegato benissimo!
Ricordo un film (mi pare con Chevy Chase, ma non sono sicuro) dove un canadese inglese deve andare nel Canada francese e studia su un manuale per turisti.
A un distributore ha una conversazione banalissima in francese con un tipo, risale in auto e dice alla moglie: "Vedi che il manuale funziona?"
E l'altro tipo, con lo stesso manuale in mano, dice la stessa cosa alla moglie 🤣
Roger Lipscombe
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Richard Bairwell
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@vicgrinberg
I was thinking about an average toot, something between "look at my cat!" and a doctoral disquisition about the concept of mutual aid in writers after Bakunin.
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Bjorn
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Bjorn • • •@bjornbon
Yes, I forgot to add that.
David GaladíEnríquez 🐀
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to David GaladíEnríquez 🐀 • • •@DGaladi
A good point.
Next week I'll make other polls in specific languages.
Manuel F. Herrador
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Manuel F. Herrador • • •@manuelfherrador @DGaladi
Yes… but in a dozen of languages at least!
Menno
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Menno • • •@MennoWolff
Yes, next week, after this poll, I'll make some more "localized" ones.
Torb (old account)
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Torb (old account) • • •@torb
IIRC Norwegian has two official versions, too!
Torb (old account)
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Torb (old account) • • •@torb
Thanks for the clarification!
I still don't know Norwegian enough to get the difference… even if I had some bottles of wine with this very nice artist (who spoke a good Italian).
no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_R%…
norsk billedhugger
Bidragsytere til Wikimedia-prosjektene (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Torb (old account)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •The historic roots is that originally we didn’t have an official written Norwegian but just wrote Danish which gradually turned slightly Norwegian to form the Bokmål (“book tongue”) variant. This was due to us being under Denmark and most elites used Danish or something close to it.
Around the same time Ivar Aasen went around the country (esp. rural areas) and did research on what various dialects of actual Norwegian sounded like. He used this as an basis for a written form that was close to what Norwegian was actually like: Nynorsk (“new norwegian”).
Over time they’ve gotten more similar to each other, but to this day I can read Nynorsk in my own dialect easily while Bokmål sounds like I’m trying pretend to have grown up in the city.
Sadly, Nynorsk is dying slowly and taking a lot traditional Norwegian culture with it. Personally there is so little Nynorsk to read that it was just to difficult to learn properly for me. So I can’t really write in a written language that’s natural to my own dialect.
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Torb (old account) • • •@torb
Thanks for the explanation!
I think not a lot of persons outside Noway are aware of that.
Kyrre Sjøbæk
in reply to Torb (old account) • • •@torb
@GustavinoBevilacqua
Norwegian is also kind of "a dozen languages in trenchcoat" situation tough. Or actually two trenchcoats... I think there are dialects within Norway that are further apart than e.g. some pairs of Norwegian and Swedish dialects.
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Torb (old account)
in reply to Kyrre Sjøbæk • • •@kyrsjo Disagree strongly with that description. Dialects are a perfectly natural part of languages!
Sweden haven’t really taken care to make sure their dialects survive. That’s why they have way less diversity in that department.
Kyrre Sjøbæk
in reply to Torb (old account) • • •@torb
@GustavinoBevilacqua
Of course they are a natural part of languages! My point was rather that the division into languages in Scandinavia has more to do with the political boundaries than how people actually speak. As an example, Swedish from Bohuslän is closer to my Norwegian dialect (from Oslo/Akershus area) than some western Norwegian dialects. Also, for people learning Norwegian as an adult, the variety of dialects can be quite bewildering.
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Kyrre Sjøbæk • • •@kyrsjo @torb
Languages are mainly dialects with a bigger army…
I live in Western Liguria, and every valley has its own variant of the Ligurian language (the most of them not even related with the language of Genoa, the capital).
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Nicole ‘dyfa’ Britz
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Nicole ‘dyfa’ Britz • • •@dyfustic
Well, sometimes it happens to me to have to check a single word in Italian, too!
Sarah L. Fossheim :they_them:
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •growing up in Belgium and then moving to Norway feels a bit like cheating here.
Belgium has 3 official languages (Dutch, French, German) + we all learn English.
Norwegian and Danish look almost the same written, and Swedish is similar enough to understand (especially since there are a lot of Swedes in Norway and they exclusively speak and write Swedish so it’s easy to pick up on).
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Sarah L. Fossheim :they_them: • • •@fossheim
One of the most fascinating languages in those surrounds is Lëtzebuergesch: not exactly German, but with a lot of French words.
The perfect language for people living on the border of two large nations.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembou…
Germanic language or language variety spoken in Luxembourg
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in reply to Sarah L. Fossheim :they_them: • • •@Sarah Fossheim :they_them: @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua Didn't know German is an official language in Belgium!
Do people generally learn German in primary school in addition to Flemish and French?
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Geert Uytterhoeven
in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 • • •I did have my fair share of Derrick with Dutch subtitles (before Horst Tappert's WW2 history was discovered), so I'm only fluent in crimi lingo
Veronica Olsen 🏳️🌈🇳🇴🌻
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Tasting Craft Beer
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Tasting Craft Beer • • •@tastingcraftbeer
My idea was "getting the gist".
Pollomostro🐣
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •2-3, più 2 che 3 sperando diventi un 3 entro il prossimo anno, il mio singalese fa ancora schifo per considerarlo. ^^'
Comunque tutte le volte che c'è un sondaggio di questo genere c'è qualcuno che chiede seriamente se bisogna contare i linguaggi di programmazione (perché?)
Allora se si devono considerare le comunicazioni uomo-macchina perché non contare anche il gattese? il canese?
L'importanza del linguaggio del corpo?
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Pollomostro🐣
in reply to Pollomostro🐣 • • •Ed il post di prima era semiserio (perché niente grammatica) ma avrei potuto includere i linguaggi musicali se per esempio avessi studiato contrappunto o le regole della musica carnatica... 🤷
Così non si finisce più. ^^'
Tornando più in tema, alcune lingue indoarie non hanno una grammatica difficile se già si conosce una lingua romanza (magari con un infarinatura di latino). Il problema per me è proprio il vocabolario. Ahah
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Pollomostro🐣 • • •@pollomostro
Per esempio la costruzione delle frasi dell'arabo è molto più affine a quella italiana che non quella tedesca (o, peggio, polacca o russa).
Poi il vocabolario è solo questione di memoria: a volte mi succede di dover usare un traduttore perché mi viene in mente un termine in francese o inglese ma non ricordo l'equivalente italiano.
Nico 🇩🇰🇺🇦
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •██████████████████████████████
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to ██████████████████████████████ • • •@suqdiq
But even to write correctly!
I can ready many latin-based languages, but I have to use a translator to put the accents in the right places.
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Dźwiedziu
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CasReadman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to CasReadman • • •@CasReadman
The average toot, between "here is my cat" and a PhD dissertation.
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CasReadman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@heroicendeavour @martinvermeer
Not at all.
I used English (and a very plain one) assuming the most of the people can have at least a basic understanding of it.
If I made the same poll in Italian it wouldn't have the same diffusion.
But next week I'll make some "localized" polls.
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Unknown parent • • •@Wille @Mark Rendle @Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua Yes, being Scandinavian feels like a cheat code in this poll. 🤣
(5: Scandinavian, Scandinavian, Scandinavian, German, English) (or is that 4 Scandinavian languages?)
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Unknown parent • • •@heroicendeavour @martinvermeer
😄
I watch a lot of metalworking videos.
My wife doesn't understand English, but she is so used to very wide Southern US accents (mainly Abom79 and Joe Pie) that when she hear somebody from England or Wales she asks me which language they are speaking.
MacLemon
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to MacLemon • • •@MacLemon
Uhm… yes, I think it would be possible to toot a video with sign language.
MacLemon
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •StatusSquatter :squat: 🍫
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •in realtà è male 1 ma questa opzione sarebbe stata troppo di nicchia o forse no :D
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to StatusSquatter :squat: 🍫 • • •@statussquatter
La prossima settimana vedrò di fare sondaggi più dettagliati.
Tra poco gli admin di cisti vengono a citofonarmi perché sto facendo troppo traffico!
StatusSquatter :squat: 🍫
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •petrisch
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
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Sion [main]
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Nikolaus Tarouquella-Levitan
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Juliana
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Juliana • • •@jjssto
Average, between "caturday" and a PhD discussion.
wavesculptor
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •SideWalkAstonomyNetherlands
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to SideWalkAstonomyNetherlands • • •@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands
If they have a Wikipedia version it's fine.
Keiþ 🔭
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Keiþ 🔭 • • •@IChewPorridge
Oh, Italians aren't very different 😉
StatusSquatter :squat: 🍫
in reply to Keiþ 🔭 • • •always tired (moved to chaos)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Maxim Syomochkin :linux:
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Maya
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Mans R
in reply to clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Mans R • • •@mansr
For one, I assume.
@clacke @wfaler @markrendle
Bakfietsouder
in reply to PA1EJO • • •Shae Erisson
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Jesú Estrada (they/them/elle)
in reply to Shae Erisson • • •nebuchi_25 :ecoanarchism:
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to nebuchi_25 :ecoanarchism: • • •@nebuchi
Alas I had too few options!
Wendy Nather
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Wendy Nather • • •@wendynather @fuzztech
I know, and I still have many of them.
I used them even when I had a dial-up link to the Internet, because then it was cheaper to look on them than online.
Alas "modern" online things made many of us pretty lazy… Google Translator is closer than a book on the shelf, which requires standing up and browsing pages
Mald3r
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •cylinthra
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •SuperDocteur
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to SuperDocteur • • •@SuperDocteur
I think so!
LIZZIE CROWDAGGER :neocat_flag_trans:
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to LIZZIE CROWDAGGER :neocat_flag_trans: • • •@crowdagger
Hum… intercomprehension of a toot, level between "It's caturday!" and a PhD dissertation.
keith
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •salyavin
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to salyavin • • •@salyavin
I forgot to specify.
Think to an average toot, something between "it's caturday!" and a PhD dissertation…
Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •hayden aiken 🇺🇲🤝🇺🇦
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Angie Radtke
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Simon Brooke
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Simon Brooke • • •@simon_brooke
I made that pool at 4 am just to satisfy my own curiosity.
Think to a toot a bit more complex than "here is my cat" and far less difficult than a PhD disquisition…
Orifices in the Void
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Orifices in the Void • • •@bezorp
I was limited by the number of options available, but I'm planning to make something more detailed next week.
Sarah Sammis
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Geert Uytterhoeven
in reply to Mans R • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@slylittlefox
Argh!
Thanks for the warning. I made that at 4 am!
I don't know if editing the toot all the votes will stay there… so I prefer to don't take the risk.
Mans R
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Alex 🐘
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Alex 🐘 • • •@alsivx
Le lingue sono dialetti con un esercito alle spalle, quindi secondo me sì, soprattutto se riesci a leggere Wikipedia nella tua lingua regionale.
Alex 🐘
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Perfetto. Chiedo perché vengono sempre messi in secondo piano rispetto all'apprendimento di altre lingue.
In effetti vengono chiamati volgarmente dialetti ma il termine corretto sarebbe "lingue regionali" e sono anche tutelate dall'Unione Europea da quanto avevo letto in merito.
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isа :luna: :jules:
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Max
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@lisseuse
Something in the middle: getting the essential of the meaning, if not the whole.
Mikko Rintasaari
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Mikko Rintasaari • • •@Adept
I made that at 4 am, just for a personal curiosity without any scientific method.
If you can read toots in 4 languages then choose 4-5: next week I'll try to make something more serious, if I find some sociologists who want to help.
Júbilo Haku
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •@LolaRS my two cents:
knowing 2 and 3 languages is very different.. it's common enough for a Mexican to speak some English but very rare to speak French on top of that.. Same for an Armenian.. they commonly enough speak Russian.... but rarely a third language.. and so on.. i find that 2 and 3 are different enough 1, 2, 3-4, 5+ in my opinion would have been better options
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Júbilo Haku • • •@jubilo @LolaRS
Next week I'll make a more "scientific" survey: this one was made at 4am just for a personal curiosity.
frankie (Pirate from Carribean)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •interesting survey; looking forward to the results! 😊
btw, it need not be that one can understand all the languages that they read and vice-versa :)
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Pewex
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Pewex • • •@pewex
I mean "without to copy the text of a toot and paste it into Google Translate".
I wrote that poll at 4am…
Pewex
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Pewex
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Nameless
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •HRH ginsterbusch
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in reply to HRH ginsterbusch • • •@ginsterbusch
A friend, who was the best Greek student at the classic lyceum, went to Athens with some friend to see a soccer match.
After a visit of the town they had to take a bus to the stadium, and he asked an old lady selling newspapers if they have to take the bus 42 or 43.
The lady look at him with a dubious eye, and asked him in Italian: "which number do you want to say?"
😄
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SusannaAuthor
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Leianora
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Madison
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •K Flashheart
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Esther :mastodon: 🌱🐾🍋 #fcknzs
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
in reply to Esther :mastodon: 🌱🐾🍋 #fcknzs • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Esther :mastodon: 🌱🐾🍋 #fcknzs • • •@Esssie31
Yes, the lowest count is 1 for this.
Dingeman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •dutch, English, German, frysian,
In nl we also have Limburgs, but that is kind of secret kind of dialect
Roberto
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •English
Italian
Neapolitan (it’s a language, not a dialect)
German
French
Latin
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Roberto • • •@RobertoHT
If there is a Wikipedia version then it is a language!
Jennie Kermode
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Jennie Kermode • • •@jennie_kermode
No, just for reading a toot mid-way between "Here is my cat ❤" and a PhD dissertation.
Samps
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dezi
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Rooster
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Thalass
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •comfort
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Oda
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Tea 🥄🖤🐘🤍♾️
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@Leisureguy
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Dextrosity
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Brendajos (She/Her/Hers)
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Brendajos (She/Her/Hers) • • •@Brendajos
Uhm… this sounds odd.
Check with the admins of your instance, if they are not too much busy.
Bennolius 😷⚡
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Debbie Petaccio
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Fred_S_at (2nd spare)
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Sometime I usee Deepl, seldom Google Translate.
James Wood
Unknown parent • • •@ijsbrand
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Gudroot
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Gudroot • • •@gudroot
I was thinking of toots: I wrote the question at 4am…
Gudroot
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Sibrosan
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •"How many languages can you read (and, of course, understand!) without the help of an online translator?"
Wat?
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Sibrosan • • •@sibrosan
Question written at 4am… the idea was about toots in various languages, not books, newspapers, etc.
Sibrosan
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Ik begrijp er nog steeds geen woord van... wacht eens even... Google Translate maakt ervan "Hoeveel talen kun je lezen (en natuurlijk begrijpen!) zonder de hulp van een online vertaler?"
Nou, 1 dan
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Sibrosan • • •@sibrosan
Dit klinkt nederlands voor mij 🤪
Sibrosan
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •C. Buck
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Keri
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •sorry 🇵🇸☭
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •giocoliera
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to giocoliera • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla @giocoliera
I've seen a professor of the University of Naples speaking fluently Linear B 😲 😲 😲
Of course I can't say if his pronunciation was correct.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Go…
Italian-Belgian archaeologist
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rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@HolgerHellinger
Programming languages are excluded, Schwäbisch could be considered a language on its own.
But I don't know how many people will toot in Schwäbisch…
Curmudgeon
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •One.
Yes, I am American, how could you tell?
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in reply to Curmudgeon • • •@jetton
Funny: California DMV had the written driver's license test in 32 languages.
Now they have pruned it "just" to seven…
Many European countries have a lot to learn from this!
governing.com/community/califo…
California DMV Removes 25 Language Options from License Test
GoverningVíktor Bautista i Roca
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •I'm part of the 4% that has voted >5, but I think I should explain what I mean with «understand».
Catalan is my first language, so no problem. Spanish, about same level.
English: I may have problems reading very popular literature with many vulgar / saxon rooted words.
French: I read French comics easily, novels is harder. French subtitles in French media, no problem.
Never studied Portuguese, Galician, Occitan or Italian but I can more or less understand normal texts.
Pieter Kuiper 🌍🇳🇱
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Pieter Kuiper 🌍🇳🇱
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •I can read novels etc in Dutch, English and Swedish. Those are the languages that I typically buy books in.
Reading books in French or German is a bit of an effort. I might buy a guide book when on vacation. That is also the case for Danish and Norwegian (but most speakers of Danish are very hard for me to understand).
I can manage the gist of the occasional toot in Spanish or in Italian. And some short quote in Latin or classical Greek.
Phantom
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Steve McCormick
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Steve McCormick • • •@quasilocal
I was thinking of "reading a generic toot not limited to 'here is my cat'". 😄
Steve McCormick
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Steve McCormick • • •@quasilocal
I wrote that poll at 4am 😉 thinking of some Italian instances forbidding people to toot in other languages than Italian, a policy I consider very dumb.
Of course the most you know, the better!
Steve McCormick
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Well, that sounds like a good way to breed an insular jingoistic/nationalistic mess 🙃
Surely nobody who wants to communicate in the wider community will abide by such rules.
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in reply to Steve McCormick • • •@quasilocal
That instance is not new to similar things:
qua.name/diorama/software-iden…
rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
Unknown parent • • •@Rolistespod
I wrote that poll at 4am 😄
I was just curious to know how many people can read toots in different languages.
I think next week I'll make another poll to see which are the most used languages.
Víktor Bautista i Roca
Unknown parent • • •@DaemonFC
I've just tested for a Swahili saying I've shared a few hours ago.
It's EXTREMELY bad.
«Ajambaye kwa hasira hujipasua msamba» becomes «Ajwho angrily sues the spread».
Google translate says: «Ajambaye in anger rips his crotch»
Real translation is «Who farts in anger rips their perineum»
Alex Achterhoek
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Brun0_3dgar
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Bryan Betts
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Bryan Betts • • •@Bryangb
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Lisa
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Lisa • • •@TicklishHoneyBee
Well, between to get the gist of a toot and to read a whole sociology treatise there is a wide range…
Sodomy Non Sapiens
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Sodomy Non Sapiens • • •@hollowman
For reading toots…
SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Me - native English speaker, fluent Spanish and French, fluent Japanese speaker (but can read only at a basic level.) I can read Portuguese and Italian pretty well too, based on my Spanish and a year or so studying both. Some Czech, but it's bloomin' difficult! I studied French and Spanish at uni, and used to teach English as a foreign language, including in Japan, Czech Republic and Venezuela, so was lucky to learn in situ.
Computer languages - nope 😕
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in reply to SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙 • • •@ClaireCopperman
You are a lucky person 😍
SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙 • • •@ClaireCopperman
A friend of mine went to work as a dishwasher in Sheffield.
When she came back she perfectly spoke… Neapolitan 🤣
It was the most used language in the back of the restaurant…
SomersetWhovian 🇺🇦💙
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Wim🧮
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Wim🧮 • • •@wim_v12e
Next week I'll search for some sociologists to split the poll in a better way.
I wrote that poll at 4am, just for a personal curiosity, and I even forgot to change the language of the toot.
Here in Italy there are instances forbidding to toot in other languages than Italian… that is pretty useless, unless people want to communicate just with "Good morning! Coffee?" messages.
Wim🧮
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • •@Rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua @Wim🧮 I can sort-of-understand not wanting to have to deal with moderating contents in more than one language (although I expect that finding moderators that understand both Italian and English is pretty easy)
OTOH, that would also be a HUGE NO from me if I was choosing an instance
(mind you, all of my posts are in STARTREK_IT, so they are monolingual, right? :D )
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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The Blue Wizard
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to The Blue Wizard • • •@thebluewizard
My idea was about reading average toots, a bit more complex than "here is my cat" and a lot less complex than a PhD dissertation.
So, if you can get a bit more than just the gist, count that for an understood language 🙂
The Blue Wizard
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Gotcha. So you are hoping to "confirm" your hunch that many people can one or more languages where the text in the language can sometimes be understood at simple level. Like "Oui, je comprends!" for example.
Of course there are text where it can be complete opaque.
Matthew
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Simon Waldman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Simon Waldman • • •@swaldman
If you can read an average toot it counts for one!
Simon Waldman
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •acid
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Tyr
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Tyr • • •@Tyr
Better than being stuck with a single language!
Axel Gschaider
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua
in reply to Axel Gschaider • • •@agschaid
Unless you want to toot using a programming language 🙂
bawaiian
in reply to rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua • • •Clive Potter
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