{"id":12216,"date":"2023-01-09T10:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2023-01-09T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:29:12","slug":"headline-written-by-a-then-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12216","title":{"rendered":"Headline written by a ten year-old (again!)"},"content":{"rendered":"&lt;In his 1946 essay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orwell.ru\/library\/essays\/politics\/english\/e_polit\/\"><em>Politics and the English Language<\/em><\/a>, one of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Orwell\">George Orwell<\/a>&#8216;s rules for the judicious use of language includes the following in his five tenets:\r\n<blockquote>If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.<\/blockquote>\r\nEven though he was speaking specifically about the language of politics, Orwell&#8217;s words are also pertinent to other fields.\r\n<p>Although his works have been out of copyright for over two years, Orwell does not seem to be very popular reading amongst the hacks kludging together the Bristol (Evening) Post\/Bristol Live, if one takes a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bristolpost.co.uk\/news\/celebs-tv\/every-word-said-during-prince-8007439\">headline to this article<\/a> which runs counter to the late great journalist&#8217;s advice.\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/01\/harry_transcript.png\" alt=\"Headline reads Every word said during Prince Harry&#039;s ITV interview\" width=\"600\" height=\"457\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/01\/harry_transcript.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/01\/harry_transcript-300x229.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n<\/p><p>Instead of adhering to Orwell&#8217;s advice and using the word <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/transcript\"><em>transcript<\/em><\/a>, the Temple Way Ministry of Truth headline writer has used four separate words and we&#8217;re back into the &#8220;<em>What I did in my holidays<\/em>&#8221; school of writing that should have been eliminated in primary school, not rewarded with public visibility and a decent salary. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\r\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;In his 1946 essay Politics and the English Language, one of George Orwell&#8216;s rules for the judicious use of language includes the following in his five tenets: If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Even though he was speaking specifically about the language of politics, Orwell&#8217;s words are also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32],"tags":[40,36,16,33],"class_list":["post-12216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","tag-bristol","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216","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=12216"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12245,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12216\/revisions\/12245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}