{"id":15637,"date":"2018-06-01T08:17:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15637"},"modified":"2018-06-01T08:17:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T07:17:13","slug":"polyglotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15637","title":{"rendered":"Polyglotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/pg2018badge.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"My name tag for the 2018 Polyglot Gathering\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today is the second full day of the #PolyglotGathering. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun, with some very interesting talks, and I&#8217;ve met a lot of people I know from previous polyglot events, and many new people too. <\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve had conversations in English, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Mandarin, Swedish, Russian and Esperanto, and have spoken odd bits of Manx, Danish, Icelandic, Czech, Italian, Portuguese and Slovak. I&#8217;ve learnt about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/warlpiri.htm\">Warlpiri<\/a>, Bengali and Ukrainian, and have sung songs in Spanish, Italian, Serbian and Maori.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I&#8217;ll be giving my presentation on Deconstructing Language. My original plan was to talk mainly about how grammar works and how it develops, but What I&#8217;ll actually talk about is where words come from and how and why they change over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the second full day of the #PolyglotGathering. It&#8217;s been a lot of fun, with some very interesting talks, and I&#8217;ve met a lot of people I know from previous polyglot events, and many new people too. So far I&#8217;ve had conversations in English, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Mandarin, Swedish, Russian and Esperanto, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,100,102,104,105,111,116,127,128,10,23,24,41,52,57,60,64,67,75,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-esperanto","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-manx","category-maori","category-portuguese","category-russian","category-serbian","category-slovak","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-ukrainian","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}