31.3318, Fun Facts: Halloween

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LINGUIST List: Vol-31-3318. Fri Oct 30 2020. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 31.3318, Fun Facts: Halloween

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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 21:56:12
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Fun Facts: Halloween

 
Hello Linguist Listers,

As Halloween approaches, LINGUIST List is pleased to announce a special
conference* that would not be possible at other times of the year.

Conference Title: Special Conference on Historical Linguistics and Philology :
resolving controversies once and for all

Dates: October 31, 2020, Midnight to 1 am

Venue: Steinau, Germany (hometown of the renowned philologists Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm)

Conference Description:

Due to the annual thinning of the veil between this world and the next, we
will be able to hear from an exciting series of invited speakers that we would
otherwise not be able to reach. These speakers will be able to shed new light
on various controversies in historical linguistics and help us definitively
expand our knowledge of proto languages and their development. Keynote
Speakers include:

    - Serega, former native speaker of Proto-Indo-European
    - Mikko, former native speaker of Proto-Uralic
    - Parvati, former native speaker of Proto-Dravidian

The conference will be live-streamed, but due to the incorporeal nature of our
invited speakers, only an audio portion will be available. For those of you
attending in person, please bring your own Ouija board in order to participate
in the Q & A session following each talk. In the interests of time, and
because our speakers will not be familiar with modern alphabets, closed
(yes/no) questions are encouraged.

*DISCLAIMER: This is not a real conference, but a bit of fun in the spirit of
Halloween. Happy Halloween everyone! We hope you enjoy the holiday weekend
safely.






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