2025-11-02 –, One and Only
Explore not just how lexemes power abstract content, but also how different languages can help each other with their lexemes! In a version of the Mad Libs party game, some abstract content (like the kind that might exist for the Abstract Wikipedia) will be presented with blanks to be filled in. Participants will select Wikidata items which in different languages have compound nouns–and sometimes verbs–to fill in those blanks. The resulting abstract content is then rendered to yield a (hopefully hilarious!) story about a situation. Participants will also have the opportunity during the game to fix lexemes in different ways, should rendering issues arise, corresponding to the various ways that items may be transformed into words and phrases in various languages.
