All fucked up and I make it look good

people always say that internet spaces are americanised because the users are majority americans.

and i do always wonder how much of that is "there are actually a majority of usamericans" and how much is "usamerican cultural markers are a default for many online spaces, and non usamericans are often indistinguishable from usamericans unless you're actively looking".

so here's an incredibly unscientific poll reblog for reach or whatever

#i am saying this every single time i see such polls but i am compelled to say it again#you are inevitably getting skewed results by even asking the question in english#i learned english as a second language but i feel comfortable enough in it to live in English-speaking internet as normal#there's many people i know who don't. and who will not interact with english posts as much because it takes effort#and your mind gets burnt out after focusing so much on foreign language content#not ideal for something you do in your free time#i know there's not much you can do about it#i just wanted this to be remembered

I don't have much to add to this (besides that I am one of the sad anglosphere people who is only fluent in one language - I used to be competently conversational in German but that's the highest I've ever got in any of the languages I've tried to learn, and I'm definitely not conversational in it now!), but you're absolutely right and it should be borne in mind.

#the language poll doesn't even have an option for non-English speakers#i think both Europeans and Americans have a great deal of privilege#so that their culture and especially the English language has been forced on the rest of the world#all to say that we must acknowledge Western-centrism when discussing American-centrism#polls

I didn't add a poll for non-English speakers because the polls themselves are in English, so it seemed fair to assume that most if not all people who interact with it would have at least some English.

like, you're not wrong, but putting "I don't speak English" in the second poll would have given an artificially low number of results in that category while implying it was accurate. looking at the current results it's easier to simply assume that people who don't speak English are fully unrepresented, and to mentally recategorise the results as "tumblr users who speak english"

like I don't necessarily think this was the best methodological approach, and nobody should take these data as representative in the first place (bc this is a scratch poll not a well-designed survey), and you're absolutely right that Anglocentrism needs discussing just as much as America-centrism, but I also want to be clear that this wasn't "I didn't consider that non-English-speakers might exist on Tumblr" - whether or not to include "I don't speak English" was actually the part of this poll I spent the longest considering.

people always say that internet spaces are americanised because the users are majority americans.

and i do always wonder how much of that is "there are actually a majority of usamericans" and how much is "usamerican cultural markers are a default for many online spaces, and non usamericans are often indistinguishable from usamericans unless you're actively looking".

so here's an incredibly unscientific poll reblog for reach or whatever

@everything-you-feel-is-real I know by tumblr tradition that I'm to say "impossible, my posts never blow up like that," or "please don't do this to me."

No wisdom from me this week, I don't know WHAT MY ISSUE IS

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

mâine = tomorrow, poimâine= tomorrow + 1 (overmorrow), RĂSpoimâine = tomorrow + 2

techincally we can add "răs" from now on to signify the number of days we add, like răsrăspoimâine as tomorrow + 3

the same with yesterday (ieri), alaltăieri, răsalaltăieri

also alaltăieri (ereyesterday) literally means "the other yesterday" for some reason

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)