{"id":24892,"date":"2020-11-18T16:08:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T07:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/hello-work-or-job-centre-language-experts-japan-english"},"modified":"2020-11-18T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T07:08:51","slug":"hello-work-or-job-centre-language-experts-spell-trouble-for-japans-mangled-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24892","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hello work&#8217; or job centre? language experts spell trouble for Japan&#8217;s mangled English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Group of language experts is taking local governments and organisations to task for their over-reliance on machine translation<\/p>\n<p>Encountering mangled English is a frequent source of mirth for many residents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a>, but for one group of language professionals, the proliferation of inappropriate words and phrases is becoming a national embarrassment.<\/p>\n<p>Their recently formed group, loosely translated as the association for the consideration of Japan\u2019s English, is taking local governments and other bodies to task for their over-reliance on machine translation on official websites and public signage.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/18\/hello-work-or-job-centre-language-experts-japan-english\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group of language experts is taking local governments and organisations to task for their over-reliance on machine translationEncountering mangled English is a frequent source of mirth for many residents of Japan, but for one group of language professi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-language"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24893,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions\/24893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}