{"id":18873,"date":"2020-02-28T23:09:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T23:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2020-03-04T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:47:58","slug":"edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18873","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently in Edinburgh for the <a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghlanguageevent.com\/\">Edinburgh Language Event<\/a>, brought to you by the people behind the Polyglot Conference. It&#8217;s a smaller than other polyglot events I&#8217;ve been to, with only 100 or participants, and the main focus is languages of the Isles, or the British Isles and Ireland, if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/49615307336\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"The Language Event, Edinburgh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49615307336_3c0866f108_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"The Language Event, Edinburgh\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I arrived earlier this evening, and eventually found the AirBnB I&#8217;m staying in after a few wrong turns. Then I discovered that my phone charger was no longer in my bag &#8211; it must have dropped out somewhere, probably on the train. So by the time I found my accommodation, it had only 3% charge. I hope to borrow someone&#8217;s charger tomorrow, or I might have to buy a new one.<\/p>\n<p>I met up with some of the other participants at a large bar in the centre of Edinburgh. Some I know already from previous such events, and others I didn&#8217;t know before. Most of the conversations were in English, but I also spoke some Welsh, Russian, Swedish, Mandarin and Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>The event starts tomorrow morning, and I&#8217;ll be giving a talk about connections between Celtic languages tomorrow afternoon. I know there are speakers of Welsh, Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic here, and there may even be some Cornish and Breton speakers.<\/p>\n<p>More photos from Edinburgh:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/albums\/72157713356729716\" title=\"Edinburgh \/ D\u00f9n \u00c8ideann\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49615311231_97924f12e0_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Edinburgh \/ D\u00f9n \u00c8ideann\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently in Edinburgh for the Edinburgh Language Event, brought to you by the people behind the Polyglot Conference. It&#8217;s a smaller than other polyglot events I&#8217;ve been to, with only 100 or participants, and the main focus is languages of the Isles, or the British Isles and Ireland, if you prefer. I arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,104,129,10,52,64,67,73,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-russian","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-travel","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873","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=18873"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18888,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18873\/revisions\/18888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}