{"id":2455,"date":"2026-05-09T22:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:32:14","slug":"language-empire-and-the-illusion-of-historical-inevitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"Language, empire, and the illusion of historical inevitability"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/slow-reads\/geopolitical-insights\/news\/language-empire-and-the-illusion-historical-inevitability-4168106\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Language, empire, and the illusion of historical inevitability\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedailystar.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_share\/public\/2026-05\/M2ZBJG4SYNIGPNJITOV5MYRIY4.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.thedailystar.net<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Language, empire, and the illusion of historical inevitability<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">A quip about language reveals deeper histories of empire, translation, and the myth of linguistic inevitability<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politica","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2456,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}