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  1. At the #PolyglotGathering, the two genders seem to be _vegan_ and _meat eater_ — with separate cafeterias and all.

    I, a nonbinary who ordered _vegetarian_ food, literally queer this binary: I can go to either cafeteria, and they will serve me the food I ordered.

    (Okay, okay, I haven't made 100% sure they're still separating everything entirely. But they were on the first day.)

  2. At the #PolyglotGathering, the two genders seem to be _vegan_ and _meat eater_ — with separate cafeterias and all.

    I, a nonbinary who ordered _vegetarian_ food, literally queer this binary: I can go to either cafeteria, and they will serve me the food I ordered.

    (Okay, okay, I haven't made 100% sure they're still separating everything entirely. But they were on the first day.)

  3. In today's talk on Interslavic, the first question asked (through an app, so in writing) was written in Glagolitic.

    Yes, this is definitely a conference of language nerds.

    #PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

  4. In today's talk on Interslavic, the first question asked (through an app, so in writing) was written in Glagolitic.

    Yes, this is definitely a conference of language nerds.

    #PolyglotGathering #polyglot #language

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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!

    youtube.com/watch?v=XpbPVo5hdE

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