{"id":3831,"date":"2025-07-30T00:55:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:55:28","slug":"book-log-proto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3831","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Proto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global<\/em> by Laura Spinney (Audible)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This came up on Audible as I was listening to <em>The History of the Bible<\/em>, and given my recent fascination with that history and the languages included along with my recent foray into learning Toki Pona (a book log post to come), I gave this a whirl.  And I don&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This chronicles what we&#8217;ve figured out about the evolution of the proto-Indo-European languages based on the sciences of linguistics, genetcis and anthropology.  Laura Spinney does a wonderful job of laying out the interplay between the disciplines and stitching together the stories they tell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like <em>The History of the Bible<\/em>, I should have read the text version, so I&#8217;m going to want to go back and re-read some sections visually.  &#8216;Cause I missed bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-fiction audio just doesn&#8217;t play nice with my brain so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global by Laura Spinney (Audible) This came up on Audible as I was listening to The History of the Bible, and given my recent fascination with that history and the languages included along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=3831\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[494,526],"class_list":["post-3831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2","tag-book-log-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3832,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions\/3832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}