{"id":14066,"date":"2024-05-12T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2024-05-12T14:03:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T14:03:10","slug":"underwater-life-using-robots-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=14066","title":{"rendered":"Deep sea life using robots &#8211; exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has often drawn attention to the inability of modern journalists (or should that be media employees? Ed.) to understand <a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/ambiguity\">ambiguity<\/a>, i.e. the quality of a statement being open to more than one interpretation, and how to avoid it by using language as a precision, not a blunt instrument.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The example below dates back to 2022, comes from India&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/\">Republic<\/a> and dives beneath the waves to the bottom of the sea. It arrived in your &#8216;umble scribe&#8217;s social medial timeline late last week, so apologies if you&#8217;ve already seen the howler below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/05\/1208334c4aa2217d-e1715521273255.png\" alt=\"Headline - UK researchers discover over 30 potential new species at ocean's bottom using robots. Byline - In what can be considered to be a breakthrough scientific development, over 30 potentially new species have been discovered by UK scientists at ocean&amp;'s bottom.\" width=\"600\" height=\"1051\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14080\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>The story was originally published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/jul\/26\/scientists-find-30-potential-new-species-at-bottom-of-ocean-using-robots\">The Guardian<\/a>. Republic&#8217;s reporter Anwesha Majumdar does not disclose in the rewrite why aquatic life in the deep oceans is using robots.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog has often drawn attention to the inability of modern journalists (or should that be media employees? Ed.) to understand ambiguity, i.e. the quality of a statement being open to more than one interpretation, and how to avoid it by using language as a precision, not a blunt instrument. The example below dates back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,34,9],"tags":[36,16,10,22,33,35,23],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","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=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14088,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}