Is anyone else preparing for NACLO 2016? How do you feel about sharing thought processes and solutions for practice questions?
I’m curious about 2015 Ec5 (Use the Force) - solution says 8 non Yoda-isms (52 Yoda-isms) but I’ve found 10. Linguistics isn’t a huge thing at my school; if you’re in the same boat, we can discuss problems together!
YAAAAAAAS
My school has a club.
I completely and totally fudged that problem last year. I was in eighth grade anyway, so…
Whoa nice! I’m old compared to you 
How have you been prepping?
I’m planning to look at all the R1 questions, but some of them I just have no clue how anyone would solve w/o seeing the solution. Even with this one (http://nacloweb.org/resources/problems/2014/N2014-C.pdf) (are links allowed? :P) I find the latter parts quite hard.
Yeah, prepping, heh. I prep like a boss. SO PREPARED. Totally making internationals this year.
lol jk i go to a club once every other week for 1/2 hour and we solve one problem
Lost in Yerevan and Running on MT have been my favorite NACLO problems so far. On the off chance you live at least slightly close to MTSU, there’s an MTSU Linguistics Olympiad that was pretty fun.
Ayyy pretty much same deal here… without the club too :’) Lost in Yerevan was actually the 1st linguistics problem I ever did and it was way too hard for little old me, but I got it when I tried it again a few weeks ago!
Haha I do wish! All the way up in the (not) frozen tundra of Canada here.
If your club has a FB group or something, could I join to freak out about how pro everyone else is? 
just really happy to find another language nut! What languages do you like?
Well, I’ve studied English, Spanish, German, Latin, Japanese, ASL, and Ainu, but I’m crap at most of them. IDK, once at a practice the senior class #3 and I nerded out about a high school that some of my friends go to in Northern Virginia. We live just outside of Nashville -_-
Kudos, that’s a really wide reach! How did you manage to learn Ainu?
I’m lost with all the US geography haha. Nashville is the big country music scene right?
Nashville is. The school I was talking about is near Washington DC.
There’s a Unilang.org course for it, actually.
Hi guys! I think a NACLO thread is a great idea, even if there are only a few people! Last year was my first time trying and I made the Invitational Round but did abysmally at that.
I have no NACLO club-I go to an arts school where we do artsy things all day and don’t have normal clubs. So normally when I freak out about language things, it’s alone in my room, haha.
@awesomepolyglot that is IMPRESSIVE. ASL seems like a really good time investment!
LOL, ASL was for about 3 months in seventh grade gifted.
I had a practice round at a nearby private school, and I won first place for 9th graders. I’m fairly certain that I was the only freshman there.
does anyone know the cutoff? what did you score to make it to the invitational round?
It changes every year.
Do you guys want to make a petition to change the competition to a Saturday? I’m sorry, but if everybody eligible would be missing class, your competition is on the wrong day.
Just a professional academic linguist popping in to say hi, and to be happy y’all are participating. (I’ve been trying to get my kids’ high school to participate for a few years now, to no avail.)
The results are out! Did anyone here qualify?
The cutoff this year was 44.004 
34.6 whoops! Still a fun time 
That’s quite fine; it could have been in the top half lol
I didn’t take it 
I had a mandatory German thing, but now I might be able to go to Germany for free.
That more than outranks the NACLO in value lol