Ok, Lemmy, let’s play a game!

Post how many languages in which you can count to ten, including your native language. If you like, provide which languages. I’m going to make a guess; after you’ve replied, come back and open the spoiler. If I’m right: upvote; if I’m wrong: downvote!

My guess, and my answer...

My guess is that it’s more than the number of languages you speak, read, and/or write.

Do you feel cheated because I didn’t pick a number? Vote how you want to, or don’t vote! I’m just interested in the count.

I can count to ten in five languages, but I only speak two. I can read a third, and I once was able to converse in a fourth, but have long since lost that skill. I know only some pick-up/borrow words from the 5th, including counting to 10.

  1. My native language is English
  2. I lived in Germany for a couple of years; because I never took classes, I can’t write in German, but I spoke fluently by the time I left.
  3. I studied French in college for three years; I can read French, but I’ve yet to meet a French person who can understand what I’m trying to say, and I have a hard time comprehending it.
  4. I taught myself Esperanto a couple of decades ago, and used to hang out in Esperanto chat rooms. I haven’t kept up.
  5. I can count to ten in Japanese because I took Aikido classes for a decade or so, and my instructor counted out loud in Japanese, and the various movements are numbered.

I can almost count to ten in Spanish, because I grew up in mid-California and there was a lot of Spanish thrown around. But French interferes, and I start in Spanish and find myself switching to French in the middle, so I’m not sure I could really do it.

Bonus question: do you ever do your counting in a non-native language, just to make it more interesting?

  • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    3 months ago

    Finnish, Swedish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Russian, English. Plus, Polish and Norwegian would go mostly right.

    So, apparently 12.

    However, I can say “I am am apple” in 30 languages. Much more useful.

  • luluu@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    1. Python

    for i in range(11):
    print(i)

    2. R

    for (i in 0:10) {
  print(i)
}

    3. C/C++

    #include <iostream>

int main() {
  for (int i = 0; i <= 10; ++i) {
    std::cout << i << std::endl;
  }
  return 0;
}

    4. Java

    public class CountToTen {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    for (int i = 0; i <= 10; i++) {
      System.out.println(i);
    }
  }
}

    5. Lua

    for i = 0, 10 do
  print(i)
end

    6. Bash (Shell Script)

    for i in $(seq 0 10); do
  echo $i
done

    7. Batch (Windows Command Script)

    @echo off
for /l %%i in (0,1,10) do (
  echo %%i
)

    8. Go

    package main

import "fmt"

func main() {
  for i := 0; i <= 10; i++ {
    fmt.Println(i)
  }
}

    9. Rust

    fn main() {
  for i in 0..=10 {  // 0..=10 includes 10
    println!("{}", i);
  }
}

    10. Zig

    const std = @import("std");

pub fn main() !void {
    var i: i32 = 0;
    while (i <= 10) {
        std.debug.print("{}\n", .{i});
        i += 1;
    }
}

    11. Scala

    for (i <- 0 to 10) {
  println(i)
}

    12. Fortran

    program count_to_ten
  implicit none
  integer :: i

  do i = 0, 10
    print *, i
  end do

end program count_to_ten

    13. Haskell

    main :: IO ()
main = mapM_ print [0..10]

    14. Julia

    for i in 0:10
    println(i)
end
      • luluu@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Yes I cheated. To be fair, I used each of those languages at one point and knew how to do it but was to lazy to look it up again.

        Edit: except Fortran

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        0·
        8 months ago

        It is astonishingly easy to get basically any LLM to output a simple iteration from one to ten function in all of those languages, and more.

        Here’s Assembly:

            newline db 0xA  ; Newline character

section .bss
    number resb 1  ; Reserve a byte for the number

section .text
    global _start

_start:
    mov ecx, 1  ; Start with 1
    mov edx, 10 ; End with 10

loop_start:
    cmp ecx, edx  ; Compare ecx with edx
    jg loop_end   ; If ecx > edx, jump to loop_end

    ; Convert number to ASCII
    add ecx, '0'  ; Convert number to ASCII
    mov [number], ecx  ; Store the ASCII value in number

    ; Print the number
    mov eax, 4        ; sys_write system call
    mov ebx, 1        ; File descriptor 1 is stdout
    mov ecx, number   ; Pointer to the number
    mov edx, 1        ; Number of bytes to write
    int 0x80          ; Call kernel

    ; Print newline
    mov eax, 4        ; sys_write system call
    mov ebx, 1        ; File descriptor 1 is stdout
    mov ecx, newline  ; Pointer to the newline character
    mov edx, 1        ; Number of bytes to write
    int 0x80          ; Call kernel

    sub ecx, '0'  ; Convert ASCII back to number
    inc ecx        ; Increment the number
    jmp loop_start  ; Jump back to the start of the loop

loop_end:
    ; Exit the program
    mov eax, 1        ; sys_exit system call
    xor ebx, ebx      ; Exit code 0
    int 0x80          ; Call kernel

        Here’s FORTRAN

        program iterate_from_one_to_ten
    implicit none
    integer :: i

    ! Loop from 1 to 10
    do i = 1, 10
        print *, i
    end do
end program iterate_from_one_to_ten

        Here’s COBOL

        PROGRAM-ID. IterateFromOneToTen.

ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
    01  WS-Counter PIC 9(2) VALUE 1.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
    PERFORM VARYING WS-Counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL WS-Counter > 10
        DISPLAY WS-Counter
    END-PERFORM.

    STOP RUN.
  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠@slrpnk.net
    1·
    8 months ago

    Replying opened the spoiler for me, but:

    1. English (native)
    2. Spanish (school)
    3. Esperanto (self-taught)
    4. Latin (university)

    I can also count to five in German, and I used to know 1-10 in Swahili, but now only remember that “moja means one”

  • Old Jimmy Twodicks@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    8 months ago

    English:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Spanish:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    French:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    German:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Italian:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Greek:

    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Mongolian:

    ᠐ ᠑ ᠒ ᠓ ᠔ ᠕ ᠖ ᠗ ᠘ ᠙ ᠑᠐

  • nargis@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    Four. English, Hindi, Marathi (native) and Kannada. Sanskrit as well, but it’s a dead language, and I can’t speak Sanskrit because the grammar is extremely complicated. Had it in school for 3 years. So 5, if you’re counting Sanskrit.

    I generally count in English, unless I am using another language with my friends (excluding Sanskrit).

    • 𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍@midwest.socialOP
      1·
      8 months ago

      Sanskrit is so interesting, and an unusual one! It reminds me that I haven’t seen anyone mention Latin yet, which is odd because it’s relatively more common and you’d expect some lawyers and doctors on Lemmy.

      I use Esperanto as my utility counting language, and I usually count in dozenal (with help-words for 10 & 11). Any time I’m doing any activity requiring me to tally, it’s usually also mind-numbingly dull so adding mental gymnastics helps. Do you ever use Sanskrit this way? I think I would, if I knew any Sanskrit.

  • MoreFPSmorebetter@lemmy.zip
    01·
    8 months ago

    …3? English, Spanish and German.

    Though as I say this I am struggling to remember how to say 10 Spanish (I failed Spanish 3 times in highschool).

    So let’s calling it 2.9 lol