{"id":359,"date":"2007-04-19T18:34:43","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/19\/language-and-time-travel\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T17:34:43","slug":"language-and-time-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=359","title":{"rendered":"Language and time travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent commenter on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/13\/lingua-mortua\/\">post<\/a> about learning Latin, Ancient Greek and other ancient\/dead languages has suggested an interesting reason for learning such languages &#8211; it&#8217;s the closest thing we have to time travel. A knowledge of these languages enables you to explore ancient civilisations and gain insights into the thoughts and lives of people who lived thousands of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn an ancient\/dead language, do you think it&#8217;s better to learn its modern descendants first, or to jump straight in with the ancient language?<\/p>\n<p>I suspect it&#8217;s probably easier to learn the modern languages first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent commenter on my post about learning Latin, Ancient Greek and other ancient\/dead languages has suggested an interesting reason for learning such languages &#8211; it&#8217;s the closest thing we have to time travel. A knowledge of these languages enables you to explore ancient civilisations and gain insights into the thoughts and lives of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,10,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek","category-language","category-language-learning","category-latin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}