{"id":8492,"date":"2018-04-21T06:51:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T06:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2018-04-22T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-22T12:14:57","slug":"english-translation-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=8492","title":{"rendered":"English translation required?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s not one of his regular local media reads, your &#8216;umble scribe might just start visiting the Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer website more to keep up to date with dynamic, one could even say groundbreaking, developments in use of the English language, if the headline of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk\/news\/16168250.NFU_president_Minette_Batters_calls_on_police_to_not_countryside_be_soft_target\/\">report<\/a> shown below is in any way typical of modern journalism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/600px_oswestry.png\" alt=\"headline reads NFU president Minette Batters calls on police to not countryside be soft target\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/600px_oswestry.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2018\/04\/600px_oswestry-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The same piece, by the same author, also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitchurchherald.co.uk\/news\/16168251.NFU_president_Minette_Batters_calls_on_police_to_not_countryside_be_soft_target\/\">appears<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s Whitchurch Herald, where similar sub-editing skills are in evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s not one of his regular local media reads, your &#8216;umble scribe might just start visiting the Oswestry and Border Counties Advertizer website more to keep up to date with dynamic, one could even say groundbreaking, developments in use of the English language, if the headline of the report shown below is in any [&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":[36,16,10,22,33],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","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=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8500,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}