{"id":1330,"date":"2007-09-19T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2007-09-19T07:00:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T12:00:48","slug":"killing-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1330","title":{"rendered":"Killing Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, this story isn&#8217;t about <a href=\"?p=1073\">the languacide perpetrated every day by semi-literate Halo fans<\/a> on message boards across the world.  It&#8217;s also not about similar crimes b cause all th kidz lern 2 type in IM and dont lern 2 spell or punctu8<\/p>\n<p>No, this is about the death of languages <em>besides<\/em> English.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,297260,00.html\">this story<\/a>, the number of languages in the world is shrinking quickly.  (Right now there is a language with only one guy left who knows it.  When he dies, it&#8217;s gone.)  Some people estimate the number of living languages to be ~7,000 right now. <\/p>\n<p>I wonder: Are they including Elvish and Klingon in that total?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprisingly, this story isn&#8217;t about the languacide perpetrated every day by semi-literate Halo fans on message boards across the world. It&#8217;s also not about similar crimes b cause all th kidz lern 2 type in IM and dont lern 2 spell or punctu8 No, this is about the death of languages besides English. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}