The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Brun Ugle » Fri May 26, 2017 9:45 am

smallwhite wrote:I was on my phone and didn't reference properly, but Brun Ugle knows I meant the cookies that Yuurei promised the cookie monsters Finnish learners, but nice to find out about the 'bring your national delicacies' evening, too.

I knew what you meant, but I don't think Yuurei is coming, so we'll have to make do. Anyway, I don't feel I deserve cookies for my Finnish. Maybe next year.
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Vedun » Fri May 26, 2017 11:54 am

Did anyone else notice that the number of registered participants dropped from 430 and something to 411 within 24 hours?
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Fri May 26, 2017 5:24 pm

Yeah, I was just showing a person the impressive list of participants, and it was lower than before. Maybe they've deleted the duplicate registrations (there were quite a few).
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Serpent » Fri May 26, 2017 7:32 pm

I'll have something for the learners of Finnish ;)

You need to pay within 5 days after registering, otherwise your registration will be cancelled. Maybe that's what happened with some people on the list.
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Elenia » Fri May 26, 2017 10:06 pm

I'm excited and terrifying! Due to the fact that I'm leaving my job next week (and also because it was cheaper) I changed my booking so that I won't arrive in Bratislava until the 31st. However, I'll be arriving obscenely early - at least, obscenely early for someone who doesn't believe in being anywhere at 6.30am.

I won't bring anything for the food festival as the only typically British thing I can think of is fish and chips, and that's a meal that can only just about manage being brought home from the shop! But I can bring a few books! In fact, I will try to bring some of the foreign non-fiction from work. It's mostly French, German and Swedish, but we do have a few other languages available too. (Some Spanish, Italian and occasionally Czech, Polish, Turkish and Greek.)
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Brun Ugle » Sat May 27, 2017 6:18 am

Elenia wrote:I'm excited and terrifying!

You don't seem all that terrifying, but thanks for the warning.

Serpent wrote:I'll have something for the learners of Finnish ;)

Maybe I should crack open my Finnish book again. Fluent in two days. :?
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Elenia » Sat May 27, 2017 8:54 am

Brun Ugle wrote:
Elenia wrote:I'm excited and terrifying!

You don't seem all that terrifying, but thanks for the warning.


I'm good at disguising my true terrible-ness! :D

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Quick question: is anyone going to Devin castle? Which day? The day I wanted to go has been cancelled :(
EDIT: Just realised that the alternative days mean the trip happens either during rdearman's talk, or tarvos' :(
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby vonPeterhof » Sat May 27, 2017 9:38 am

Elenia wrote:Quick question: is anyone going to Devin castle? Which day? The day I wanted to go has been cancelled :(
EDIT: Just realised that the alternative days mean the trip happens either during rdearman's talk, or tarvos' :(

Yeah, I was disappointed by this as well. I really didn't want to cancel the trip, but I also couldn't decide between the two talks, so I left it up to a coin toss and indicated that either date works (though this probably just makes it more likely that I'll end up in the June 1 group - I'm sorry, rdearman :( ).
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby Serpent » Sat May 27, 2017 9:42 am

I've had another look and decided that spending 3-4 hours there is overkill :lol: I'm just going to take the bus and hopefully go back by boat/ship (it takes 90 min against the current and just 30 min from the castle to the centre).
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Re: The Polyglot Gathering, Bratislava 2017

Postby rdearman » Sat May 27, 2017 11:07 am

Rats. I need to check that I am not at the castle when I should be talking!!!

Edit: OK, I'm not at the castle during my presentation, and I hadn't realised the trip would conflict with the presentations. Since I'm going for the presentations not to see a castle, I've asked to be taken off the list. If that isn't possible I might have a castle trip if anyone wants it. :(
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