{"id":108793,"date":"2016-03-21T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/21\/misbehavingmaiar-sebastian-bond-2\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T21:04:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T21:04:38","slug":"misbehavingmaiar-sebastian-bond-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/21\/misbehavingmaiar-sebastian-bond-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/misbehavingmaiar.tumblr.com\/post\/141229577819\" target=\"_blank\">misbehavingmaiar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/sebastian-bond.tumblr.com\/post\/141225059586\" target=\"_blank\">sebastian-bond<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/but-the-library-of-alexandria.tumblr.com\/post\/141026344727\" target=\"_blank\">but-the-library-of-alexandria<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise &#8211; what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described if there was no queen ann? where do you draw the line? can you use the word platonic if plato never existed? can you name a character chris in a land without christianity? can you even say \u2018bungalow\u2019 in a world where there was no indian language for the word to originate from? is there a single word in any language that doesn\u2019t have a story behind it? to be accurate a fantasy story would be written in a fantasy language but who has the time for that<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tolkien had the time apparently<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>LIsten. Linguistics Georg, who invented over 10,000 conlangs each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>misbehavingmaiar: sebastian-bond: but-the-library-of-alexandria: the thing about writing fantasy stories is that language is so based on history that it can be hard to decide how far suspension of disbelief can carry you word-choice wise &#8211; what do you call a french braid in a world with no france? can a queen ann neckline be described &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/21\/misbehavingmaiar-sebastian-bond-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,1466,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}