{"id":356,"date":"2005-01-20T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T22:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=356"},"modified":"2005-01-27T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2005-01-27T23:09:49","slug":"the-dreaded-linguist-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"The Dreaded Linguist Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anggarrgoon\/\">Anggarrgoon<\/a> has a good strategy for answering the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/anggarrgoon\/2005\/01\/11#a285\">Dreaded Linguist Question<\/a>.  She links to LanguageHat&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/languagehat.com\/languages.php\">languages page<\/a>, so I thought I&#8217;d do my own list:<\/p>\n<p>How many languages do I speak?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fluent: English, French, Esperanto.<\/li>\n<li>Moderately comfortable, but lack vocab: Modern Standard Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Japanese, Tok Pisin.<\/li>\n<li>Forgotten: German, Spanish.<\/li>\n<li>Can read: Spanish, Italian, Latin, Classical Greek.<\/li>\n<li>Studied: Norwegian, Quiche Mayan, Klingon.<\/li>\n<li>Dictionaries\/Grammars: Akkadian, Latin, Attic Greek, New Testament Greek,  Biblical Hebrew, Modern Standard Arabic, Gulf Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Tchien Krahn, Dioula, Japanese, German, French, Norwegian, Mandarin, Esperanto, Klingon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nowhere near as impressive as Language Log&#8217;s, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>Update: An article in the Economist gives a good description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/science\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3576374\">what linguists do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anggarrgoon has a good strategy for answering the Dreaded Linguist Question. She links to LanguageHat&#8217;s languages page, so I thought I&#8217;d do my own list: How many languages do I speak? Fluent: English, French, Esperanto. Moderately comfortable, but lack vocab: Modern Standard Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, Levantine Arabic, Japanese, Tok Pisin. Forgotten: German, Spanish. Can read: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=356\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dreaded Linguist Question&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}