/lang/ - Languages

What's the point of these conventions? Patting each other on the back because we can speak multiple languages? Bragging about who knows the most obscure language? That would get boring fast.

Never been to one.

>>1548

I get the whole criticism of snobbiness and I dislike this whole 'polyglot identity' talk that people like Argulles seem to push because he thinks that multilingual people are like mutants that have to be fostered by a Mr. Xavier of languages who he considers to be himself, lol.

But in my opinion it's just another way of people to connect with others that share their interests. I mean aren't we doing that right now, just digitally?

They have informal meetings but also scheduled talks, discussions and presentations on related topics or workshops on specific languages.

There are some interesting talks among the ones that they have uploaded on their youtube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_8BR59zKgBzeWPxFtmHSwA/videos?view=0&flow=grid&sort=p

>>1550

You might be right but I tried watching a couple of talks and they were terrible (the ones about the 5 hacks and the most effective way to learn languages).

>>1553

Well, the ones which go like 'this is how you learn a language in two days with this simple trick' are obvious shit, tbqh.

>>1553

So they're like the e-celebs of the linguistic world? :^)

>>1555

Some of them kind of are micro-celebs that have their own following and others are complete hacks that scam you out of your money by selling you their 'unique method' but most of the time it's both.