{"id":229,"date":"2013-02-27T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/nook\/?p=229"},"modified":"2013-02-27T23:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T07:21:35","slug":"before-babel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2013\/02\/27\/before-babel\/","title":{"rendered":"Before Babel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[embedplusvideo height=&#8221;477&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; standard=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J0phq7litTc?fs=1&amp;hd=1&#8243; vars=&#8221;ytid=J0phq7litTc&amp;width=600&amp;height=477&amp;start=&amp;stop=&amp;rs=w&amp;hd=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;react=1&amp;chapters=&amp;notes=&#8221; id=&#8221;ep3943&#8243; \/]<\/p>\n<p>It is frustrating being confined to such a narrow slice of time.\u00a0 This video deals with the idea of a common language from which all languages emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Often, we can understand where things are likely to go in the future by looking back into the past, but with language there is a game changer that never existed before, cheap, widely available, global communications.<\/p>\n<p>During man&#8217;s history, he was always expanding outward from his origins, but we&#8217;ve reached a point where almost no portion of the globe is totally unpopulated.\u00a0 There is no where unpopulated to expand in to, on this planet.<\/p>\n<p>So I wonder, will language eventually meld back into a common language, and if so, how much will it resemble the original proto-language?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedplusvideo height=&#8221;477&#8243; width=&#8221;600&#8243; standard=&#8221;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/J0phq7litTc?fs=1&amp;hd=1&#8243; vars=&#8221;ytid=J0phq7litTc&amp;width=600&amp;height=477&amp;start=&amp;stop=&amp;rs=w&amp;hd=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;react=1&amp;chapters=&amp;notes=&#8221; id=&#8221;ep3943&#8243; \/] It is frustrating being confined to such a narrow slice of time.\u00a0 This video deals with the idea of a common language from which all languages emerged. Often, we can understand where things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2013\/02\/27\/before-babel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}