{"id":10312,"date":"2021-08-19T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2021-08-19T10:33:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T10:33:08","slug":"mail-muddles-linguists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10312","title":{"rendered":"Mail muddles linguists"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Members of the fourth estate being unable to distinguish the difference between translators and interpreters has a long history &#8211; one which has occasionally been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=7971\">highlighted by this blog<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>The latest publication&#8217;s staff to show their ignorance work &#8211; if that&#8217;s the correct term &#8211; for the Daily Mail which today published <a href=\"\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9906319\/Dominic-Raab-busy-holiday-help-brave-translators.html\">this report<\/a> with the headline shown below.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10323\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/raab_translators.jpg\" alt=\"Headline reads Raab was 'too busy' on holiday to help brave translators\" width=\"600\" height=\"710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/raab_translators.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/08\/raab_translators-254x300.jpg 254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>The copy alternates between <em>translators<\/em> and <em>interpreters<\/em> when referring to the victims of alleged Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab&#8217;s lack compassion for people who&#8217;ve served this country at great risk to their own lives and those of their families &#8211; a clear sign that the author, John Stevens, the Mail&#8217;s deputy political editor is ignorant of their different skills.<\/p>\r\n<p>Should he happen to alight on this article, I can only recommend Mr Stevens extends his visit to this blog by following my recommendation that he reads this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=1715\">handy guide<\/a> to the difference between translators and interpreters, which has some useful illustrations to explain the difference, as he clearly has difficulties in understanding words. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the fourth estate being unable to distinguish the difference between translators and interpreters has a long history &#8211; one which has occasionally been highlighted by this blog. The latest publication&#8217;s staff to show their ignorance work &#8211; if that&#8217;s the correct term &#8211; for the Daily Mail which today published this report with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10327,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}