{"id":55,"date":"2009-06-03T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T02:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/?p=55"},"modified":"2009-06-03T22:54:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-04T02:54:19","slug":"a-new-read-on-linguistic-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/a-new-read-on-linguistic-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Read on Linguistic Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker recently passed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/24\/books\/review\/Blount-t.html?scp=1&amp;sq=books%20languages&amp;st=cse\">this link<\/a> in an email. It&#8217;s a review of a fascinating new book about languages, called &#8220;Origins of the Specious.&#8221; The Darwin pun alone makes me want to read it!<\/p>\n<p>While the book, from what I can discern, does not focus on Esperanto, it addresses some of the peculiar idiosyncrasies of grammar and language that prompted the invention of our favorite second language. I plan to take a look at it in the near future, and will comment further upon it then. For now, you might want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Origins-Specious-Misconceptions-English-Language\/dp\/1400066603\">investigate the book yourself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A co-worker recently passed on this link in an email. It&#8217;s a review of a fascinating new book about languages, called &#8220;Origins of the Specious.&#8221; The Darwin pun alone makes me want to read it! While the book, from what I can discern, does not focus on Esperanto, it addresses some of the peculiar idiosyncrasies&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/a-new-read-on-linguistic-issues\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[7736],"tags":[7738,10],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-esperanto-language","tag-criticism","tag-literature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/esperanto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}