The “language and media” programme track at the conference, which was the one I was here to listen to, is finished so I’ve been listening to sundry other seminars today. Including one where the speaker said “And as you all know, the vowel system in the Altaic languages. . .”

But I’ve learnt a lot, too; there was one excellent seminar on statistics, and one on diminutives in Spanish, and a talk on overt pronouns in Spanish as it is spoken by Hispanics in New York. I like going to conferences, I think.

And now I really have to leave the computer for there are people queuing up to it.