{"id":1427,"date":"2016-11-28T11:19:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=1427\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T13:33:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T11:33:55","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-rosetta-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-rosetta-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>Rosetta stone<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is common with the Rosetta stone and social media? The mystery of hieroglyphs was solved with the help of the Rosetta stone. The same legal text was written on the stone with hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek. The Greek writing allowed scientists to interpret the hieroglyphics in the 1800s; the skill which had been lost since the use ended 300 years AD.<\/p>\n<p>Social media can act as a Rosetta stone in opening difficult official documents. While studying how municipal documents were edited to online texts, it appeared that the readability improved, as the original text was rewritten to newsletter and when the newsletter in turn was modified to social media update. A plain language update can therefore serve as a key for a reader to difficult public sector writings and increases opportunities for meaningful participation. In addition, active government communication is likely to renew official language itself, and thus to improve also the readability of original documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is common with the Rosetta stone and social media? The mystery of hieroglyphs was solved with the help of the Rosetta stone. The same legal text was written on the stone with hieroglyphs, demotic script, and Greek. The Greek writing allowed scientists to interpret the hieroglyphics in the 1800s; the skill which had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1504,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}