{"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<p>Into the Seventies and at the midway point of the series on Burgess&#8217;s invented languages over at <a href=\"https:\/\/ponyingtheslovos.coventry.domains\/invented-languages\/anthony-burgesss-other-invented-languages-part-4-the-seventies-sophocles-and-shocking-sonnets\/\">Ponying the Slovos<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What did people speak before Indo-European languages developed?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many invented languages can you fit into a small novella that&#8217;s mostly poems?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve attempted to answer those questions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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<p>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&#8217;ll tell that tale too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Into the Seventies and at the midway point of the series on Burgess&#8217;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&#8217;s mostly poems? I&#8217;ve attempted to answer those questions there. Bonus: if you ever wondered what &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/02\/18\/from-paleolinguistics-to-poetry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Paleolinguistics to Poetry&#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":[19,28],"tags":[22,105,106,108,103,104,91,107],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-languages","category-literary-criticism","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-belli","tag-john-keats","tag-mid-uister-hiberno-english","tag-paleolinguistics","tag-sonnets","tag-sophocles","tag-ulster-scots"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnZAt-3i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","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=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}