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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 3:28 pm
by bradrn
Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:
A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors
(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri May 03, 2024 4:01 pm
by Travis B.
bradrn wrote: ↑Fri May 03, 2024 3:28 pm
Two in one day! This one isn’t from a newspaper, but manages to be tremendously confusing all the same:
A portable Common Lisp toolkit for building inspectors
(As one commenter put it, ‘I was excited to learn how building inspectors were using Common Lisp’…)
When I first read the text in bold, before I read the text in parens I reacted in much the same fashion.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat May 25, 2024 7:49 pm
by Darren
On an advert - DIY or Do It For Me
Granted I'm not confused about what they mean, but it reads horrendously
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed May 29, 2024 7:44 am
by Man in Space
Courtesy of News Channel 5, WEWS:
'What a tragedy for Cleveland': Firefighters battle historic Tremont church fire
Is the church itself historic or is this a blaze of hitherto unforeseen intensity? (Or are we talking about the vintage section of Tremont?)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 7:21 am
by hwhatting
And is it a tragedy that the firefighters are battling the poor fire?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2024 9:35 am
by Raphael
Not a headline - from the Irish Times liveblog of the Irish local election count:
In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, first time candidate Roland Kennedy a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner and former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe are battling it out for every single vote.
I'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:26 pm
by Man in Space
Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 9:35 amI'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.
My guess is it’s Kennedy. How I parse this:
In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner][,] and [former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:40 pm
by bradrn
Man in Space wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 4:26 pm
Raphael wrote: ↑Mon Jun 10, 2024 9:35 amI'm still not sure which of the two is the cafe owner.
My guess is it’s Kennedy. How I parse this:
In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser and cafe owner][,] and [former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.
This was my initial guess too, but you can rebracket the conjunctions:
In the Killiney-Shankill electoral area, [first time candidate Roland Kennedy[,] a Fórsa trade union organiser][,] and [cafe owner and former Cllr Dave O’Keeffe] are battling it out for every single vote.