{"id":5939,"date":"2011-09-26T19:57:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2011-09-26T19:57:59","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:57:59","slug":"frys-planet-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Fry&#8217;s Planet Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new series on the BBC at the moment called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b015d4qz\/Frys_Planet_Word_Babel\/\">Fry&#8217;s Planet Word<\/a>. I just watched the first episode in which Stephen Fry explores the origins of language, and asks how it&#8217;s acquired, why only humans have language, why there are so many languages, and so on. He also touches on sign language and conlangs. He doesn&#8217;t cover anything in great detail, but it&#8217;s very interesting nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new series on the BBC at the moment called Fry&#8217;s Planet Word. I just watched the first episode in which Stephen Fry explores the origins of language, and asks how it&#8217;s acquired, why only humans have language, why there are so many languages, and so on. He also touches on sign language and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939","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=5939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}