{"id":356,"date":"2004-10-01T07:04:26","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=356"},"modified":"2004-10-01T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2004-10-01T13:04:26","slug":"xenolinguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/10\/01\/xenolinguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenolinguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this tickled my funny-bone.<\/p>\n<p>This website, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xibalba.demon.co.uk\/jbr\/lingo.html\">A Primer in SF Xenolinguistics<\/a>, really made me chuckle.  It&#8217;s really a what NOT to do guide.  In a nutshell, it lists all the things that begining writers make when dealing with language in science-fiction and fantasy.  Actually, it&#8217;s a bit frightening how many people who should know better make these mistakes, too, but I digress.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a fun read and, heaven help me, it&#8217;s informative, too.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s Friday, go check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, this tickled my funny-bone. This website, A Primer in SF Xenolinguistics, really made me chuckle. It&#8217;s really a what NOT to do guide. In a nutshell, it lists all the things that begining writers make when dealing with language in science-fiction and fantasy. Actually, it&#8217;s a bit frightening how many people who should know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,16,27,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constructed-languages","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-fun","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}