{"id":365,"date":"2010-08-30T15:19:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=365"},"modified":"2010-08-30T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T22:19:38","slug":"worlds-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Worlds Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/books\/okrent.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Arika Okrent\" src=\"http:\/\/arikaokrent.com\/images\/okrent_photo.jpg\" title=\"Arika Okrent\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>I had the oddest experience today. I work at a large metropolitan library and was walking down the hall today when a patron saw me and said, &#8220;Saluton! I was reading about you in a book today.&#8221; This particular patron was vaguely familiar, but I hadn&#8217;t really had the opportunity to speak with him for a couple years. Not since I worked in a different department. Well, my brain started spinning, and I finally asked, &#8220;Do you mean Arika Okrent&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0812980891\/conlangorg-20\">In the Land of Invented Languages<\/a>? He said, &#8220;Yeah. Can you say hello in your chipmunk language?&#8221; Unfortunately, I&#8217;ve been away from <a href=\"\/Drytok_TLoK1.pdf\">Drytok<\/a> for a while, so I couldn&#8217;t oblige him&#8230;the shock of being asked to speak it out-of-the-blue notwithstanding. We talked for a while; I told him about Arika&#8217;s new book I heard she was working on, and I encouraged him to check out the posting at the Language Creation Society page of the actual <a href=\"http:\/\/podcast.conlang.org\/2009\/02\/dritok-the-sound-of-no-voice-speaking\/\">LCC presentation<\/a> of Drytok&#8217;s first public appearance. All in all, a great way to brighten up a Monday! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the oddest experience today. I work at a large metropolitan library and was walking down the hall today when a patron saw me and said, &#8220;Saluton! I was reading about you in a book today.&#8221; This particular patron was vaguely familiar, but I hadn&#8217;t really had the opportunity to speak with him for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,15,29],"tags":[7,160,163,60],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-conlangers","category-conlanging","tag-book","tag-conlangers","tag-conlanging","tag-okrent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.conlang.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}