{"id":265376,"date":"2008-10-23T18:41:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T18:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/10\/23\/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:29:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:29:45","slug":"david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/10\/23\/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"David Harrison on the scarcity of language"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world. This, argues linguist K David Harrison, represents the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled &#8211; but it\u2019s rapidly eroding, and this will be terrible. We\u2019re not only losing information, but we\u2019re losing ways of understanding the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptech.org\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/10\/23\/david-harrison-on-the-scarcity-of-language\/\">Why are they going extinct? Where? And why does it matter?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are 7,000 languages spoken in the world. This, argues linguist K David Harrison, represents the greatest repository of human knowledge ever assembled &#8211; but it\u2019s rapidly eroding, and this will be terrible. We\u2019re not only losing information, but we\u2019re losing ways of understanding the world. Why are they going extinct? Where? And why does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[15736,2136,15726],"class_list":["post-265376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-david-harrison","tag-ejvl","tag-pop-tech"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356366,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265376\/revisions\/356366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}