Slay kin drop fed case
The British redtops are laws unto themselves, and our heds are never going to duplicate something as cool as "Nude pic row vicar resigns." "Slay kin," though, is a notch beyond standard Post. "Drown kid," we know, means "young person who drowned," but "slay kin" doesn't mean "relatives who were slain"; it means "family of person who was slain." The Post is a Murdoch property, meaning it's a citizen of the world, but this extra syntactic bump helps make clear that tabloid knowledge operates in a world all its own.
"Slay kin drop fed case" isn't as cool a noun string as the British get, then, but it's convoluted in its own New World way. Your thoughts?
posted by fev at 12:42 AM
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Apart from the fact that slay isn't used much in BrE (except in less cheerful OT readings, of course) my inner redtop sub wants to find a noun to take slay's place. Unless slay has become a noun in MurdochE?
I read it as "kin of slain person/people", mostly I guess because if it had been "kin who were slain" they wouldn't have been dropping anything... It's ugly, though.
I think the difference is, in UK tabloid heds, the confusion is created by a pile-up of nouns, some of which could genuinely be read as verbs. With Post heds, though, it's caused by verbs being used as adjectives, which as a UK reader I find genuinely baffling. (I never got the sense of the story from the hed - I had to read the blogpost to understand it.)
That's what gives it its transatlantic flavour, I reckon. You could never do this in a british tabloid - it would have to be 'kin of slain' at the very least.
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