{"id":179604,"date":"2017-12-19T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/19\/can-i-have-this-translated-from-english-to-american\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T03:35:00","slug":"can-i-have-this-translated-from-english-to-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/12\/19\/can-i-have-this-translated-from-english-to-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Have This Translated from English to American?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this Reuters report about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-uber-britain\/union-and-taxi-drivers-group-can-participate-in-ubers-london-appeal-idUSKBN1ED16J\">Uber&#8217;s appeal of the decision by Transport for London to ban the service<\/a>, I came across a rather interesting quote which, to American eyes at least, appears to rather oblique:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">At Tuesday\u2019s hearing, TfL<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\"> also said it had \u201cone or two\u201d issues regarding the accuracy of details provided by Uber<\/span><\/b>.\u201cThe decision letter says, well, there are one or two issues about the extent to which the information given to TfL was correct,\u201d TfL lawyer Martin Chamberlain told the court. \u201c<b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">That is one of the points that the decision is based on<\/span><\/b>.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis mine<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I believe that translating from Etonian speak to an earthier London vernacular would give us something to the effect of, &#8220;You are a bunch of lying wankers, so sod off!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Am I correct in understanding the underlying intent here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this Reuters report about Uber&#8217;s appeal of the decision by Transport for London to ban the service, I came across a rather interesting quote which, to American eyes at least, appears to rather oblique: At Tuesday\u2019s hearing, TfL also said it had \u201cone or two\u201d issues regarding the accuracy of details provided by Uber.\u201cThe &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[371,515,437,471],"class_list":["post-179604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-europe","tag-language","tag-regulation","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}