{"id":912,"date":"2010-11-18T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-18T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/?p=912"},"modified":"2010-11-18T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T07:41:56","slug":"execution-in-the-prison-exercise-yard-translation-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/execution-in-the-prison-exercise-yard-translation-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution in the prison exercise yard &#8211; translation error"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A translation error at a UK prison labelled an exercise yard as an &#8220;execution yard&#8221; in the draft of an information booklet for Russian inmates.<\/p>\n<p>An inspection report mentioned the faux pas at Lincoln Prison in a section on foreign prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>The translation was <strong>spotted by a member of staff at the proof stage<\/strong>, the Ministry of Justice said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And jolly good thing too. That&#8217;s what proofing is for. Mind you, how anyone mistook &#8220;exercise&#8221; for &#8220;execution&#8221; I can&#8217;t quite understand. Could it have been a slip of the spell-checker? Are the Russian terms for these words similar? A few years ago we handled some prison manuals into Polish. I remember it being a long and fairly lucrative job.  :laugh: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-lincolnshire-11774367\">Full BBC story here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English-Russian translation error labels prison exercise yard as execution yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[100,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alexeames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}