MTK copied a list of the most spoken languages in the world (which didn’t include Taiwanese). I edited the list to include Taiwanese. Because of the way polls work, I couldn’t edit it to put Taiwanese as an option anywhere but at the bottom. So it’s a technical error OK?
Brian
Mi ne komprenas kial mia kara lingvo, kion mi parolas kiel nativ-naskigxinta parolanto, ne estas trovita sur cxi tio listo.
Hmmm, I had German as second foreign language in primary school, but well, as the owner of the German bar can attest, then I am hardly a language genius.
Jeg mener bestemt at vi snakker dialekter af det samme vikingesprog, dog har jeg nemmest ved at forst
I’m Swiss, the first language I grew up with is Swiss German, which obviously is very similar to whatever language X3M and Mr. He were writing. My offical mother tongue is German though, cause Swiss German is not one of the official languages in Switzerland and people do not agree whether it is a dialect or a language.
MTK copied a list of the most spoken languages in the world (which didn’t include Taiwanese). I edited the list to include Taiwanese. Because of the way polls work, I couldn’t edit it to put Taiwanese as an option anywhere but at the bottom. So it’s a technical error OK?
Brian[/quote]
Yeah what Brian said. :raspberry: Excuse me while I go cry in the corner. 
Ooh, I should have added that too, oh well… There’s probably a lot of languages I should have added. I just took the ones off the site so people would know where they came from.
Thanks for letting us know 
I wish guests could vote becuase a lot of people just lurk through the pages of this site.[/quote]
I wasn’t really thinking spoken mother tounge when I started the thread because I was thinking about different language packs availible for the forum (Taiwanese isn’t one of them). And the language packs availible are largely based on the most widely used languages currently online. My first post was setup so people wouldn’t question my ethics in choosing. Maybe you didn’t see the links.
I forgive you.
What exactly is the connection betweeh Scottish & Hillbilly? I am reading a book that suggests this same connection – i.e., that lots of “hillbilly” words like nekkid actually come from the way Scottish immigrants in the mid to late 1700s spoke English.
Anyway… my mother tongue is American English, specifically a Philadelphia/Baltimore/Lehigh Valley/Pennsylvania Dutch hybrid dialect.
My mom was from Philly, my dad was a Baltimoron, and I grew up in the Lehigh Valley (eastern PA) which has strong Pennsylvania Dutch infleunces – e.g., outten the light, throw the horse over the fence some hay, it’s all, and such oddities.
[quote=“hsiadogah”]I think it’s sad that the mother tongue of the vast majority of the people in Taiwan (Taiwanese) is at the bottom of the list. Negative points for that, MTK.
Oh, and what about those of us whose mother tongue has been different at different times of our lives?[/quote]
People on this forum MUST learn to read each thread, and each post within the thread, in it’s entirety before posting. Save them the embarrassment of comments such as this.
One of a few reasons I have been absent from posting for so long. You can always count on some bloke (or blokette) not reading the thread entirely or clearly enough and making some… ah… less than insightful comment.
But, I digress…
I don’t quite know how to respond to the poll, 'cause when it comes to tongues, I happen to be cunnilingual.
By Taiwanese reasoning, My mother tongue would be Welsh or Cornish or something, noone’s mother tongue is English, that’s an evil communists invaders’ language.
My idea about the poll: how about making it a multiple choice poll ?
Can someone explain to me how this is even a possibility? Doesn’t mother tongue mean “the first language spoken in an individual’s home in his early or earliest childhood; one’s first language or native language”? Granted, you can have multiple mother tongues if you’re raised a polyglot, but isn’t it impossible for your mother tongue to be different at different times?
My mother’s tongue is mostly muscle and densely packed nerve endings wrapped in a pinky purple, taste sensitive skin tissue.
I don’t know about my mother’s toungue but I like my turtle’s. Cutest thing in the world.
If Afrikaans was included…I’m sure it would be fairly high in the poll. Kiwi English is the language I was raised speaking but here in Taiwan a lot of my friends tend to be Afrikaans speakers.