{"id":100,"date":"2022-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/?p=100"},"modified":"2022-10-02T10:52:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T10:52:00","slug":"they-wanted-you-to-know-linguistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/they-wanted-you-to-know-linguistics\/","title":{"rendered":"They Wanted You To Know Linguistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645-768x380.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645-1536x760.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tumblr_l_743175841962645.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is from the foreword of The French Language (2nd Ed. 1953) by Alfred Ewert M.A. Litt.D. in the Faber and Faber &#8220;The Great Languages&#8221; series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1933, when the first edition was published, it was still reasonable to expect that language learning would proceed on an increasingly scientific basis and that a textbook of French for &#8220;the upper forms of schools&#8221; (i.e. 17 to 18 year olds) would be well written if every section included copious references to historical development from the Latin, with the Appendix of selected texts beginning with &#8220;Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from the foreword of The French Language (2nd Ed. 1953) by Alfred Ewert M.A. Litt.D. in the Faber and Faber &#8220;The Great Languages&#8221; series. In 1933, when the first edition was published, it was still reasonable to expect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/they-wanted-you-to-know-linguistics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,3],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linguistics","tag-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}