#language poll

[lurkinglurkerwholurks]

because language is vague and tricky and I'm checking my own idiomatic biases

What does the phrase "I'm not mad about it" convey to you?

"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm USAican or derive my idioms from them)

"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm British or derive my idioms from them)

"It doesn't make me angry/upset" (I'm something unrelated to USAicans/Brits)

"I'm not wild about/super into it" (USAican/idioms derived from USA)

"I'm not wild about/super into it" (British/idioms derived from UK)

"I'm not wild about/super into it" (idioms unrelated to USAicans/Brits)

This means something totally different to me & will explain in reblog/tags

Voting ended onMay 4

[would-you-rather-ooo]

Would you rather...

instantly learn any language

instantly learn to play any instrument

Voting ended onApr 30, 2025

[zhenya-grey]

Which of these two specific forms of English do you like more?

USA English

British english

Remaining time: 1 day 5 hours

No nuance, no attempts at "objectively better or worse", just pick one or don't, I purposely left out a ton of forms of English because there won't be enough spaces, and most importantly don't argue please.

I just want to know which one people like more.

[danikatze]

Ok I have a question. Recently I heard someone pronounce "hehe" differently than how I say it and it's been stuck in my brain, because what they said has a whole different vibe imo

I pronounce hehe

with the e from acne

with the e from leg

neither of the above (let me know in the tags/comments)

Voting ended onOct 29, 2025

[zuko-always-lies]

Your native language is...?

English

Chinese (Mandarin)

Hindi-Urdu (Yes, I know these are technically different languages)

Arabic

French

Bengali

Portuguese

Indonesian

Spanish

Russian

German

Something else (put in tags)

Remaining time: 3 days 9 hours

And yes, I'm aware that much, if not most, of the world's population has a native language not on this list.

[life-dairy]

How many languages can you speak?

Only one

More than one

Voting ended onApr 15

I used to be able to speak German and French somewhat fluently as a teenager but I got bored of it and now I can't speak them at all. I want to learn Morroccan Arabic but I have ADHD I can barely focus on surviving xddddd

[ethicallysourcedsustainablepolls]

What are everyone’s favorite words?? If you see this please tag some of yours

[exquisite-peculiarity]

What would you consider your primary language?

English 1.45 billion

Manderin Chinese 1.12 billion

Hindi 602 million

Spanish 559 million

Standard Arabic 274 million

French 274 million

Bengali 273 million

Russian 258 million

Portuguese 258 million

Urdu 231 million

Other

Voting ended onAug 27, 2023

Options are the 10 most spoken languages, listed with their number of total speakers for comparison to final results (Source)

Please share for sample size, I think it would be really interesting to compare the tumblr data set to the global data set!!