{"id":844,"date":"2004-02-15T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2004-02-15T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2004-02-15T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2004-02-15T12:39:19","slug":"language-change-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Language change (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know almost nothing about African languages &#8212; so little that I don&#8217;t know what I don&#8217;t know, as Mr Rumsfeld would say. So it was a pleasure to come across Abiola Lapite&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/reti.blogspot.com\/2004_02_15_reti_archive.html#107680475662987383\">refutation<\/a> of the idea that we can hope to find the proto-language of mankind, using examples drawn from West Africa, rather than Yurp or North America.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know almost nothing about African languages &#8212; so little that I don&#8217;t know what I don&#8217;t know, as Mr Rumsfeld would say. So it was a pleasure to come across Abiola Lapite&#8217;s refutation of the idea that we can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}