{"id":2872,"date":"2012-11-08T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2012-11-06T10:27:36","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T15:27:36","slug":"what-could-be-better-than-esperanto-and-klingon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/what-could-be-better-than-esperanto-and-klingon\/","title":{"rendered":"What could be better than Esperanto and Klingon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Volap\u00fck!\u00a0 That’s what!\u00a0 I never knew this, probably because I never pursued this, but invented languages have been happening throughout time.\u00a0 I love the article:\u00a0 Tr\u00fcth, Bea\u00fcty, and Volap\u00fck at The Public Domain Review<\/a>.\u00a0 Who knew a language could be undone by umlaut?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Volap\u00fck!\u00a0 That’s what!\u00a0 I never knew this, probably because I never pursued this, but invented languages have been happening throughout time.\u00a0 I love the article:\u00a0 Tr\u00fcth, Bea\u00fcty, and Volap\u00fck at The Public Domain Review.\u00a0 Who knew a language could be undone by umlaut?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[160,81],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-language","tag-learning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6416,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/05\/04\/clement-skitts-word-of-the-day-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":2872,"position":0},"title":"Clement Skitt’s Word of the Day","author":"leems","date":"May 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\"The swell was flash, so I could not draw his fogle.\" Let's dissect: Swell: gentleman (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose) Flash: Knowing. 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