{"id":343,"date":"2015-06-05T06:41:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T11:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=343"},"modified":"2015-06-05T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T12:24:39","slug":"dodge-y-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=343","title":{"rendered":"Dodge-y Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The car doesn&#8217;t like me. Or at least the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driveuconnect.com\/\">Uconnect<\/a> voice recognition (VR) system is toying with me. I do speak the Queen&#8217;s English (or at least a dialect spoken by one of her humble servants) so why am I having\u00a0this problem? Watch and please sympathise:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_78409\"  width=\"700\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"700\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9a9jIO1uFg?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now I realise, just because the name of my nationality (English) matches the language I speak, that I shouldn&#8217;t get special treatment from the car. But it just didn&#8217;t occur to me that there wouldn&#8217;t be a British English setting. My phone has one, surely the car would? Of course it wouldn&#8217;t, it&#8217;s a Dodge: a brand barely heard of in the UK.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_347\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-02-16.35.55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-02-16.35.55-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Target, TARGET, TARRRR-GETTTTTTT!!!!!!\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-02-16.35.55-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/2015-06-02-16.35.55-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-347\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Target, TARGET, TARRRR-GETTTTTTT!!!!!!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Doing hammy impressions of the locals does trick the VR system into obeying my commands but surely there&#8217;s a more elegant solution? Or perhaps Chris and Dodge are two entities separated by a common language. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tah-get<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The car doesn&#8217;t like me. Or at least the Uconnect voice recognition (VR) system is toying with me. I do speak the Queen&#8217;s English (or at least a dialect spoken by one of her humble servants) so why am I&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,29,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accent-reactions","category-cars","category-lojenx","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}