Player helps blind woman
There was a nice look at hed ambiguity over at Language Log this week (along with the revelation that one of the Logsters appears to be a former rimrat: Arnold, you've been holding out on us!). And sure enough, demons are summoned by the mention of their names, as the KC Star makes clear on today's F10:
Project would put reason back in season
Nope. Not the Three Agnostics debating hotel prices in Bethlehem or anything like that. This isn't about "reason" the noncount noun. It's about a particular reason, hence its usual appearance as "the" reason. Normally, we'd suggest finding a shorter version of "project" (say, our old friend "plan") to fit in "the reason," but then we have another issue: "in season" and "in the season" are, erm, sorta different constructs too. Oh well.
While we're over at the Star: Romenesko readers will want to note the correction on 2A:
A Dec. 10 column by E. Thomas McClanahan based on personal recollections from 31 years ago misstated a newsroom scene at the Dallas UPI bureau. The 1975 news “flash” on the fall of Saigon read “Saigon government surrenders” and moved at night, not on a “sunny day in April.” Although the column said “many” cheered in the bureau, at that time of the evening the staff would have dwindled to only a handful.
That's a start. But it still leaves one wondering what else in that remarkably stupid column was fabricated.
Project would put reason back in season
Nope. Not the Three Agnostics debating hotel prices in Bethlehem or anything like that. This isn't about "reason" the noncount noun. It's about a particular reason, hence its usual appearance as "the" reason. Normally, we'd suggest finding a shorter version of "project" (say, our old friend "plan") to fit in "the reason," but then we have another issue: "in season" and "in the season" are, erm, sorta different constructs too. Oh well.
While we're over at the Star: Romenesko readers will want to note the correction on 2A:
A Dec. 10 column by E. Thomas McClanahan based on personal recollections from 31 years ago misstated a newsroom scene at the Dallas UPI bureau. The 1975 news “flash” on the fall of Saigon read “Saigon government surrenders” and moved at night, not on a “sunny day in April.” Although the column said “many” cheered in the bureau, at that time of the evening the staff would have dwindled to only a handful.
That's a start. But it still leaves one wondering what else in that remarkably stupid column was fabricated.
posted by fev at 3:18 PM
1 Comments:
From the missourian circa 2000: Firefighters help burn survivors. I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but it's still one of my favorites.
Re: KC Star corex: How many UPI staffers will fit in YOUR hand?
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