{"id":1293,"date":"2010-12-13T15:50:55","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2010-12-13T15:52:23","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T23:52:23","slug":"polyglot-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"Polyglot Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question most often asked when people find out you&#8217;ve dabbled in linguistics is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/archives\/356\">How many languages do you speak<\/a>?&#8221;  Well, I&#8217;ve studied quite a few languages, but there are only a couple I&#8217;d be comfortable jumping in blind right now.<\/p>\n<p>James McGrath has started <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/polyglot-meme.html\">a meme that widens the net a bit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>List every language that [you] have made some sort of concerted effort to learn, even if [you] didn&#8217;t get beyond the first lesson or so, or even if [you] are still learning it. No need to specify the degree of fluency in the blog post &#8211; if readers are curious how much Swahili you know, they can ask.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my list, in no order whatsoever:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/French_language\">French<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_language\">German<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_language\">Spanish<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Italian_language\">Italian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_language\">Russian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Norwegian_language\">Norwegian (Bokm\u00c3\u00a5l)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basque_language\">Basque<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cantonese\">Cantonese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Standard_Mandarin\">Mandarin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arabic\">Arabic (Standard, Levantine)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Japanese_language\">Japanese<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tok_pisin\">Neo-Melanesian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krahn_language#Language\">Krahn (Tchien)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dioula_language\">Dioula<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swahili_language\">Swahili<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lingala\">Lingala<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poqomchi'_language\">Poqomchi&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo-Saxon_Language\">Anglo-Saxon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_Greek\">Greek (Attic, Koine)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Classical_Latin\">Latin (Classical)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biblical_Hebrew\">Hebrew (Biblical)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sumerian_language\">Sumerian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Akkadian_language\">Akkadian<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Esperanto\">Esperanto<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ido\">Ido<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lojban\">Lojban<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Klingon_language\">tlhIngan Hol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~ram\/Latejami\/index.html\">Latejami<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toki_pona\">Toki Pona<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laadan\">L\u00c3\u00a1adan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question most often asked when people find out you&#8217;ve dabbled in linguistics is &#8220;How many languages do you speak?&#8221; Well, I&#8217;ve studied quite a few languages, but there are only a couple I&#8217;d be comfortable jumping in blind right now. 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