{"id":22839,"date":"2023-04-20T16:09:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22839"},"modified":"2023-04-20T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T16:10:14","slug":"language-event-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22839","title":{"rendered":"The Language Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m off to Edinburgh for some polyglottery at <a href=\"http:\/\/languageevent.com\/events\">The Language Event<\/a>. There will be talks and discussions about language-related topics, and chances to talk about and in a variety of languages. It&#8217;s being held at the French Institute of Scotland on Saturday and Sunday. If you&#8217;re going, I&#8217;ll see you there.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/49615311231\/in\/album-72157713356729716\/\" title=\"Edinburgh Castle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49615311231_97924f12e0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Edinburgh Castle\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I went to a simliar event four years ago in early 2020, just before lock-downs started. I haven&#8217;t been to any of the larger polyglot happenings since, such as the Polyglot Conference or the Polyglot Gathering, and have realised that I prefer smaller events.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/49615307336\/in\/album-72157713356729716\/\" title=\"The Language Event, Edinburgh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49615307336_3c0866f108_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Language Event, Edinburgh\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I&#8217;m off to Edinburgh for some polyglottery at The Language Event. There will be talks and discussions about language-related topics, and chances to talk about and in a variety of languages. It&#8217;s being held at the French Institute of Scotland on Saturday and Sunday. If you&#8217;re going, I&#8217;ll see you there. I went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839","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=22839"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22843,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22839\/revisions\/22843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}