{"id":2363,"date":"2009-02-08T17:01:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2363"},"modified":"2009-02-08T17:01:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T22:01:03","slug":"telegraph-the-best-of-sign-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2363","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph: The best of Sign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/carefulwaters.jpg' title='Photo of Sign'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/carefulwaters.jpg' alt='Photo of Sign' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph has run a series of &#8220;Sign Language&#8221; picture galleries of photos submitted by readers. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/travel\/picturegalleries\/signlanguage\/3917183\/The-best-of-Sign-Language.html\">The best of Sign Language<\/a> gathers some of the best of these collections of funny signs. While many play on poor English translations, some are amusing photographic juxtapositions of signs and backgrounds like this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bedbreakfast.jpg' title='Image of Bed and Breakfast'><img src='http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/bedbreakfast.jpg' alt='Image of Bed and Breakfast' width=\"400\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such sign humor is a way into noticing <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.mcmaster.ca\">words in the wild<\/a>, but ultimately such signs are not how text works in public signage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph has run a series of &#8220;Sign Language&#8221; picture galleries of photos submitted by readers. The The best of Sign Language gathers some of the best of these collections of funny signs. While many play on poor English translations, some are amusing photographic juxtapositions of signs and backgrounds like this one: Such sign humor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telegraph: The best of Sign Language<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words-in-the-wild"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}