{"id":1321,"date":"2005-12-11T10:58:09","date_gmt":"2005-12-11T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/11\/no_honor_killings_here"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:26:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:26:48","slug":"no_honor_killings_here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/12\/11\/no_honor_killings_here","title":{"rendered":"No &#8220;honor&#8221; killings here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a blog by three al-Jazeera workers (courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/dunner99.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/honor-vs-honour.html\">Dunner<\/a>) and an entry on it about a simple misunderstanding of language.  Someone searched on the al-Jazeera site for stories on &quot;honor killings&quot;, and couldn&#39;t find any, and came to the conclusion that al-Jazeera didn&#39;t care about the issue.  The real reason was that the website used UK spellings, and spelled it &quot;honour&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Is this really a case of stupid cultural insensitivity towards something as well-known as different spellings of English words, or is it a fault with the technology?  Perhaps search tools could be developed which, by default, search for <em>both<\/em> versions of words with different spellings?  Not everyone knows that Arabs, while a lot of them speak English with an American accent, may not use every American usage.  (Bear in mind, the British had a presence in the Gulf region until fairly recently.)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Don't Bomb Us - A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers: Lost in Translation\" href=\"http:\/\/dontbomb.blogspot.com\/2005\/12\/lost-in-translation.html\">Don&#39;t Bomb Us &#8211; A blog by Al Jazeera Staffers: Lost in Translation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a blog by three al-Jazeera workers (courtesy of Dunner) and an entry on it about a simple misunderstanding of language. Someone searched on the al-Jazeera site for stories on &quot;honor killings&quot;,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-lj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42681,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321\/revisions\/42681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}