{"id":931,"date":"2013-09-17T18:13:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=931"},"modified":"2013-09-17T18:13:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:13:40","slug":"linguistic-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=931","title":{"rendered":"Linguistic History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-933\" alt=\"hagar\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hagar.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hagar.jpg 760w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/hagar-300x90.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a>As frequent readers know, I like to occasionally delve into a bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=388\">linguistic and grammatical history<\/a> on this blog, in an attempt to class up the joint and help make my readers educated, productive members of society.\u00a0 Of course, to do this, I need to search the internet for the most authoritative sources.\u00a0 This week, one of those sources, <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/\">Comics Curmudgeon<\/a>, made that easier by providing <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/?p=19429\">not one<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/?p=19438#hth\">two posts<\/a> on the fascinating history of the negative concord in English and other languages (you need to scroll down to Hagar the Horrible on that second link if you are only interested in linguistic theory).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/joshreads.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-934\" alt=\"herb_and_jamal\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/herb_and_jamal.jpg\" width=\"532\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/herb_and_jamal.jpg 760w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/herb_and_jamal-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As frequent readers know, I like to occasionally delve into a bit of linguistic and grammatical history on this blog, in an attempt to class up the joint and help make my readers educated, productive members of society.\u00a0 Of course, to do this, I need to search the internet for the most authoritative sources.\u00a0 This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}