jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6868 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 73 of 85 06 May 2015 at 2:31am | IP Logged |
It was great meeting you all! Not a day passed without meeting new people who turned out to be HTLAL members - with varying degrees of activity, though. As Iversen says, we can't tell who is a member or not. At best, you recognize somebody from their profile, but often there is no photo. I spoke to at least fifteen-sixteen from HTLAL.
Summary coming up.
Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 06 May 2015 at 10:48pm
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Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5515 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona
| Message 74 of 85 06 May 2015 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
I wish I'd been there with you, guys! I look forward to experiencing the big event vicariously through your eyes and ears for now (and hopefully, a bevy of interesting new videos). :)
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patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4492 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German
| Message 75 of 85 06 May 2015 at 8:46am | IP Logged |
Solfrid Cristin wrote:
At one point there was a guy who
called me by name, and asked if I was a member of some group I did not catch the name of. I was running
towards room three, knowing that I would have to stand for the next two hours if I did not get there in time,
and was so stressed out that I just answered that I did not think so and ran further. Only a couple of minutes
later did it click that he had said HTLAL, so I searched for him for the next couple of hours - and asked every
guy who looked remotely like him if he was the guy who had talked to me earlier (not feeling particularly
intelligent accosting a dozen unknown men who denied having talked to me). I found him in the end, gave
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Yeah. I was a bit weirded out after I asked you if you were Solfrid from the Internet forum How-to-Learn-Any-Language and you looked me in the eye and said No and then ran away. :) At the time I couldn't work out if you were actually Solfrid or not, and whether I had either totally creeped out a stranger, or if you were actively avoiding me. I remember talking to my wife on the phone at lunchtime and saying to her that I had this totally weird experience where I approached someone at the meeting and they just totally denied being the person I knew them to be and had then run away from me at high speed. :) Especially as I just wanted to thank them for organizing the original Super Challenge.
It was certainly reassuring when you found me a few hours later and we could at least say hello. I am just sorry I couldn't stay for the rest of the meeting. It would have been very nice to hangout with a few HTLAL people.
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5195 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 76 of 85 06 May 2015 at 9:16pm | IP Logged |
Anyone know if they are going to post the videos to the same YouTube channel as last year or if there will be a change? I am subscribed to last years channel.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6868 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 77 of 85 06 May 2015 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
Yes, everything was filmed and it was said that it will be available on the youtube channel (probably after some editing). There were always two cameras running, and one of them was also used for close-ups whenever questions arose.
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nikolic993 Diglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 3739 days ago 106 posts - 205 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English Studies: Italian, Mandarin, Romanian, Persian
| Message 78 of 85 06 May 2015 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
When will the videos be uploaded?
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meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5926 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map
| Message 79 of 85 07 May 2015 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
Teango you would have loved it ! The traveling was hard and I wasn't able to participate as I would have
liked, but it was truly wonderful to be there. I have photos on my Facebook page. I don't know if you use
Facebook, but I sent you a friend request some time ago.
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rdearman Senior Member United Kingdom rdearman.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5195 days ago 881 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French, Mandarin
| Message 80 of 85 07 May 2015 at 8:42pm | IP Logged |
I'm booking a room next year! I'm sick of missing out!
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