{"id":9161,"date":"2021-02-21T11:41:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2021-02-21T11:41:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T11:41:09","slug":"ambiguity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"Ambiguity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>in my first job after graduation (translator and marketing analyst for Imperial Tobacco in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bedminster,_Bristol\">Bedminster<\/a>, Bristol), part of my employer&#8217;s house style I had to absorb was an avoidance of all and any ambiguity.<\/p>\r\n<p>I well remember my chagrin at being admonished for it by my line manager, who had left school at 14 with no qualifications, started out as a messenger boy in the post room and worked his way up to senior middle management.<\/p>\r\n<p>Collins Dictionary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/ambiguity\">defines ambiguity<\/a> as &#8220;<em>the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>vagueness or uncertainty of meaning<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is a lesson that the employees of the Bristol Post\/BristolLive (<em>also known by some locals as the Temple Way Ministry of Truth. Ed.<\/em>) have yet learn, as shown by the latest example below.<\/p>\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_9170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9170\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-9170\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/02\/post_gmb-600x317.png\" alt=\"Headline text reads: Bristol's Alex Beresford recalls vile abuse from online trolls in GMB interview\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/02\/post_gmb-600x317.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/02\/post_gmb-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/02\/post_gmb-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/02\/post_gmb.png 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who was interviewed: Mr Beresford or the trolls?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in my first job after graduation (translator and marketing analyst for Imperial Tobacco in Bedminster, Bristol), part of my employer&#8217;s house style I had to absorb was an avoidance of all and any ambiguity. I well remember my chagrin at being admonished for it by my line manager, who had left school at 14 with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,32,34],"tags":[16,10,22,33,35],"class_list":["post-9161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bristol","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-social-media","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}