{"id":6067,"date":"2011-06-27T12:09:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2011-06-27T12:09:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T11:09:42","slug":"the-irritation-of-travel-announcements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"The irritation of travel announcements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve travelled to Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and Derbyshire &#8211; all by train. So I have considerable sympathy with David Marsh who explains in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mind-your-language\/2011\/jun\/26\/railspeak-terminated-train-station-language\">this article<\/a> his objections to the strange language used in rail announcements.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not only the words that are used for travel announcements; it&#8217;s also the way those words are delivered. For some reason, the sentences are pronounced in an undulating, sing-song fashion, totally unlike normal conversation. And it&#8217;s not just rail announcements; the same experience is to be found on the London Underground and on airlines.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up on this irritating phenomenon at the beginning of my short story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Story18.html\">&#8220;Coming In To Land&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the last couple of weeks, I&#8217;ve travelled to Oxford, Bristol, Manchester and Derbyshire &#8211; all by train. So I have considerable sympathy with David Marsh who explains in this article his objections to the strange language used in rail announcements. It&#8217;s not only the words that are used for travel announcements; it&#8217;s also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6070,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}