{"id":826,"date":"2025-09-24T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T11:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/?page_id=826"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T13:20:44","slug":"80-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/80-2\/","title":{"rendered":"80"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe 400s are devoted to language and linguistics, and this section is described by Adrian as \u201cthe least useful section of the library\u201d because \u201cnothing truly important can be learned with words\u201d. Thus far I have avoided discovering exactly what Adrian means by that, and I would suggest that naive, first year students should probably do likewise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn any case, not unlike the 200s, the religion section, the 400s are mostly devoted to European languages, in a reflection of the mindset of Melvil Dewey\u2019s time. On this basis languages from beyond Europe are compressed into sections 490 to 499.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis section is only for human languages?\u201d you ask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cExactly right, Epson,\u201d says Eloise. \u201cProgramming languages are at 005, and the languages of cats around 821 in the poetry of TS Eliot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut surely programming languages <em>are<\/em>&nbsp;human languages?\u201d says Bae.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll have to take that up with the ghost of Melvil Dewey,\u201d says Eloise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cPlease follow me through this wormhole!\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/22-2\/\">goto 22<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe 400s are devoted to language and linguistics, and this section is described by Adrian as \u201cthe least useful section of the library\u201d because \u201cnothing truly important can be learned with words\u201d. Thus far I have avoided discovering exactly what Adrian means by that, and I would suggest that naive, first year students should probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-826","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":948,"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/826\/revisions\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iotacism.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}