Hi, Salut,
Comparing the results of this poll with the one on people's origins (
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=3;action=display;threadid=17314;start=50) gives interesting results.
The results in this poll shows that for
50% of the people, english is the mother tongue and for the remaining
50% another language.
Now if you look at the results of the other poll, you notice that
63% are from USA/Canada+UK/Ireleand+Australia/NZ and
37% (edited from 27%
) from the rest of the world. You can think that those 63% are likely to have english as their mother tongue and that the rest of the world is more likely to have another one. Ok, but then it does not match the results of the "mother-tongue" poll (50/50). Why ?
Here are some potential reasons for this mismatch :
1/ A lot of people who lives in the USA are not native english speakers. (but there might also be some english natives in non anglophones countries)
2/ Our Québécois friends are counted in the USA/Canada region but are native french speakers
3/ The statistics might not be large enough (48 votes here against 110 for the other poll)
4/ The native english speakers don't really care about a poll on languages.
Any more comments ?
Please have a très belle journée les friends !
C.