{"id":135,"date":"2020-12-20T23:34:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=135"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T23:34:17","slug":"dont-curb-your-lingthusiasm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/20\/dont-curb-your-lingthusiasm\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t curb your lingthusiasm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity,&#8221; Henry David Thoreau once wrote. Lingthusiasm, by contrast, is neither supernatural nor serene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the state of being excited by language, how it works and how it functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s about being fascinated by phonemes, seduced by semantics and in love with lexis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s why I&#8217;m interested in what invented languages do, because in their artificial creation, they reveal the obsessions of their creators in relation to the generally opaque modes through which we communicate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/invented-languages\/getting-lingthusiastic-about-translation\/\">Over at the Ponying the Slovos blog,<\/a> we have become very lingthusiastic recently, inspired in no small measure by the achievements of Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We recognise kindred spirits. Their lingthusiasm is ours. And may be yours too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity,&#8221; Henry David Thoreau once wrote. Lingthusiasm, by contrast, is neither supernatural nor serene. It&#8217;s the state of being excited by language, how it works and how it functions. It&#8217;s about being fascinated by phonemes, seduced by semantics and in love with lexis. It&#8217;s why I&#8217;m interested in what invented languages &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2020\/12\/20\/dont-curb-your-lingthusiasm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t curb your lingthusiasm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[29,71,70,72],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-languages","tag-invented-languages","tag-linguistics","tag-podcast","tag-translation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-2b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}