{"id":3915,"date":"2014-03-28T14:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T14:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2014-03-30T10:13:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-30T10:13:57","slug":"language-crash-course-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3915","title":{"rendered":"Crash course in language, part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After one&#8217;s had a collision, road traffic incident or &#8216;accident&#8217;, as discussed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3906\" title=\"Crash course in language\">previous post<\/a>, one virtually inevitable subsequent step is the submission of an insurance claim.<\/p>\n<p>These too have their own vocabulary and are couched in terms intended to deflect blame away from the claimant.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon was noted many years ago by comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jasper_Carrott\">Jasper Carrot<\/a>, as in the video below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_51689\"  width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DvqxkqGJGWk?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Jasper Carrott - Car Insurance\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Happy motoring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After one&#8217;s had a collision, road traffic incident or &#8216;accident&#8217;, as discussed in the previous post, one virtually inevitable subsequent step is the submission of an insurance claim. These too have their own vocabulary and are couched in terms intended to deflect blame away from the claimant. This phenomenon was noted many years ago by [&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],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}