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Another highlight from the afternoon, by Shawn (whose last name, if they have one, I cannot find), about Ket and Navajo (although it also applies to Ojibwe among others):

"The verb is king, and nouns should feel lucky to end up next to them."

That's... actually a very, very appropriate way to describe the relationship of nouns to verbs in polysynthetic languages. I need to track Shawn down and ask whether it was meant to be that descriptive, or whether it was just a lucky offhand comment about the respective levels of morphological complexity.

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kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 16:37 UTC

Another highlight from the afternoon, by Shawn (whose last name, if they have one, I cannot find), about Ket and Navajo (although it also applies to Ojibwe among others):

"The verb is king, and nouns should feel lucky to end up next to them."

That's... actually a very, very appropriate way to describe the relationship of nouns to verbs in polysynthetic languages. I need to track Shawn down and ask whether it was meant to be that descriptive, or whether it was just a lucky offhand comment about the respective levels of morphological complexity.

#PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 16:37 UTC

Another highlight from the afternoon, by Shawn (whose last name, if they have one, I cannot find), about Ket and Navajo (although it also applies to Ojibwe among others):

"The verb is king, and nouns should feel lucky to end up next to them."

That's... actually a very, very appropriate way to describe the relationship of nouns to verbs in polysynthetic languages. I need to track Shawn down and ask whether it was meant to be that descriptive, or whether it was just a lucky offhand comment about the respective levels of morphological complexity.

#PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 16:37 UTC

Another highlight from the afternoon, by Shawn (whose last name, if they have one, I cannot find), about Ket and Navajo (although it also applies to Ojibwe among others):

"The verb is king, and nouns should feel lucky to end up next to them."

That's... actually a very, very appropriate way to describe the relationship of nouns to verbs in polysynthetic languages. I need to track Shawn down and ask whether it was meant to be that descriptive, or whether it was just a lucky offhand comment about the respective levels of morphological complexity.

#PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

#language #polyglot #polyglotgathering

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 16:37 UTC

Another highlight from the afternoon, by Shawn (whose last name, if they have one, I cannot find), about Ket and Navajo (although it also applies to Ojibwe among others):

"The verb is king, and nouns should feel lucky to end up next to them."

That's... actually a very, very appropriate way to describe the relationship of nouns to verbs in polysynthetic languages. I need to track Shawn down and ask whether it was meant to be that descriptive, or whether it was just a lucky offhand comment about the respective levels of morphological complexity.

#PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 12:32 UTC

I'm at the #PolyglotGathering in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

#polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 12:32 UTC

I'm at the #PolyglotGathering in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

#polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 12:32 UTC

I'm at the #PolyglotGathering in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

#polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 12:32 UTC

I'm at the #PolyglotGathering in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

#polyglot #language

#language #polyglot #polyglotgathering

kechpaja @[email protected] · 2024-05-16 · 12:32 UTC

I'm at the #PolyglotGathering in Prague, for the first time since right before the pandemic (2019).

One highlight so far: "If you think Indonesian and Malay are easy, you haven't met the rest of the family" - Brian Loo, in his talk on comparative phonology and grammar of Austronesian languages. This also holds if your primary exposure to Austronesian languages was Polynesian (Hawai'ian, Māori, etc).

Unfortunately, I seem to be the only person trying to wear a mask in indoor spaces, even at an event with over 800 people. I haven't gotten any pushback on this, but the combination of mask + queer hair + bad at pretending to be neurotypical does occasionally draw looks.

Overall, the feel of the event is definitely different from when it was 200-some people jammed into a youth hostel in Berlin, but similar to the Bratislava years (I never got to the Polish instances).

#polyglot #language

#polyglotgathering #polyglot #language

Ho Esperanto! @[email protected] · 2022-06-24 · 10:47 UTC

Pli ol 300 homoj partoprenis la Polyglot Gathering 2022 en Pollando. La eventon ĉeestis ankaŭ la TEJO-estrarano Valentin Ceretto-Bergerat kaj la TEJO-volontuloj Wojtek kaj Lenka. Malkovru kiel Polyglot Gathering rilatas al #Esperanto kaj al nia komunumo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpbPVo5hdEI

#PolyglotGathering #PolyglotGathering2022 #esperanto #tejo #Polyglot #jutubo #video

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Ho Esperanto! @[email protected] · 2022-06-24 · 10:47 UTC

Pli ol 300 homoj partoprenis la Polyglot Gathering 2022 en Pollando. La eventon ĉeestis ankaŭ la TEJO-estrarano Valentin Ceretto-Bergerat kaj la TEJO-volontuloj Wojtek kaj Lenka. Malkovru kiel Polyglot Gathering rilatas al #Esperanto kaj al nia komunumo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpbPVo5hdEI

#PolyglotGathering #PolyglotGathering2022 #esperanto #tejo #Polyglot #jutubo #video

#esperanto #polyglotgathering #polyglotgathering2022 #tejo #polyglot #jutubo

Ho Esperanto! @[email protected] · 2022-06-24 · 10:47 UTC

Pli ol 300 homoj partoprenis la Polyglot Gathering 2022 en Pollando. La eventon ĉeestis ankaŭ la TEJO-estrarano Valentin Ceretto-Bergerat kaj la TEJO-volontuloj Wojtek kaj Lenka. Malkovru kiel Polyglot Gathering rilatas al #Esperanto kaj al nia komunumo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpbPVo5hdEI

#PolyglotGathering #PolyglotGathering2022 #esperanto #tejo #Polyglot #jutubo #video

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