Sinks drown phony rats vanish jerk
Not so much word salad as word gazpacho.
posted by fev at 9:31 PM
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Not so much word salad as word gazpacho.
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3 Comments:
What made me laugh much harder was the first line: "Her face says it all". My first reaction was "it says all that? Egad."
I somehow thought I was going to land on a Language Log post about a bad translation out of something like Chinese; what a surprise to find out this was an American story--such as it is!
Ah - I've finally worked out how to read NY Post headlines: add '-ing' to every word you don't understand! 'Drown-ING phony'. Nothing's more fun than describing somebody as a 'vanish jerk', though.
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