{"id":204,"date":"2021-02-18T22:13:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=204"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:13:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T22:13:56","slug":"from-paleolinguistics-to-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/from-paleolinguistics-to-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"From Paleolinguistics to Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Into the Seventies and at the midway point of the series on Burgess’s invented languages over at Ponying the Slovos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What did people speak before Indo-European languages developed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many invented languages can you fit into a small novella that’s mostly poems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve attempted to answer those questions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus: if you ever wondered what 19th century Romanescu dialect sonnets sound like when translated into Mid-Ulster Hiberno-English, I got your back there too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Into what, I hear you ask? Into the actual dialect of the North of Ireland. You may have heard tell of Ulster-Scots. It too is an invented language, created (and not the first either nor the last) for political reasons. One day I’ll tell that tale too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Into the Seventies and at the midway point of the series on Burgess’s invented languages over at Ponying the Slovos. What did people speak before Indo-European languages developed? How many invented languages can you fit into a small novella that’s mostly poems? I’ve attempted to answer those questions there. Bonus: if you ever wondered what … <\/p>\n

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