{"id":12548,"date":"2023-04-04T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=12548"},"modified":"2023-04-04T10:37:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T10:37:13","slug":"nsw-takes-gibberish-to-whole-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=12548","title":{"rendered":"NSW takes gibberish to new level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has often been remarked that Britain and the USA are two countries divided by a common language.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>However, let&#8217;s not forget that the spread of English around the world resulted in the development of different varieties of English around the world, all with varying degrees of (in)comprehensibility.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A prime example of something beyond the comprehension of your &#8216;umble scribe turned up this morning in his social media feed. It contains a fine example of some prime official gibberish from the state authorities of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_South_Wales\">New South Wales<\/a> in Australia.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>If you, dear reader, can make any sense of it, please feel free to use the comment form below to provide a translation into British English; furthermore, please feel free to add any punctuation which you deem will aid comprehension as the original notice has none. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/nsw_gibberish.png\" alt=\"Sign reads ATTENTION IRREGULAR DRIVING IS PROHIBITED WITHIN 200 METRES OF SHORE IF FROM THESE WATERS DWELLING LOCATED WITHIN 200 METRES OF THIS SHORE IS VISIBLE PENALTIES APPLY\" width=\"416\" height=\"554\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/nsw_gibberish.png 416w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/nsw_gibberish-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has often been remarked that Britain and the USA are two countries divided by a common language. However, let&#8217;s not forget that the spread of English around the world resulted in the development of different varieties of English around the world, all with varying degrees of (in)comprehensibility. A prime example of something beyond the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,34],"tags":[36,16,22,20,35],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-politics","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548","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=12548"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12555,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12548\/revisions\/12555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}