{"id":16969,"date":"2018-10-29T19:43:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T18:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16969"},"modified":"2018-10-29T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T18:43:01","slug":"polyglot-conference-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16969","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Conference &#8211; Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Polyglot Conference came to and end yesterday, and while it was only a few days, we managed to pack quite a lot into the time.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went to talks on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/piraha.php\">Pirah\u00e3 language<\/a>, Braille, personality-focused training in second language acquisition, and the character traits of polyglots.<\/p>\n<p>I also gave my talk on the diversity of writing systems to a nearly full room. Quite a few people told me afterwards  that they really enjoyed it and found it interesting. Which is encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the conference we were told where next year&#8217;s conference will be: <span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:16.0016px; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-weight:400; letter-spacing:normal; orphans:2text-indent:0px; text-transform:none; white-space:normal; widows:2; word-spacing:0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); text-decoration-style:initial; text-decoration-color:initial; display:inline!important; float:none; text-align:left;\">Fukuoka (\u798f\u5ca1\u5e02) in Japan from 18-20 October 2019.<\/span> I haven&#8217;t decided whether to go yet.<\/p>\n<p>I left a very wet Ljubljana this morning and flew to Manchester via Frankfurt. Apart from a bit of turbulence, everything went smoothly. I&#8217;m currently on the train from Manchester Airport to Crewe. Should be home in a few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Polyglot Conference came to and end yesterday, and while it was only a few days, we managed to pack quite a lot into the time. Yesterday I went to talks on the Pirah\u00e3 language, Braille, personality-focused training in second language acquisition, and the character traits of polyglots. I also gave my talk on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,40,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-polyglottery","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969","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=16969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}