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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 2:32 pm
by zompist
Not a headline, but here's a nice line from the Independent:
It came after the prime minister's deal was rejected by a record majority of 230, as around 100 of her own backbenchers ignored her last-ditch appeal to vote down the Brexit agreement.
Well, no wonder it lost, if she was whipping up no votes!
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 8:43 pm
by Pabappa
Sloppy editing at the Rutland Herald tells us that in Vermont, craft breweries now outnumber people:
Vermont is the friendliest state for small-batch suds with 11.5 breweries per capita
....
As of 2018, Vermont tops the list as the most popular state for craft beer, followed closely by Montana and Maine, which each boast 9.6 breweries per capita, followed by Oregon and Colorado.
https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/loca ... 350b3.html
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2019 10:25 pm
by Risla
Silly one, but I managed to get garden-pathed by the following sentence from
this Wikipedia article:
Slicing the bamboo shoots thinly assists in this leaching.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 5:32 am
by Salmoneus
Manafort confronts lying charges in court (politico)
Seems to prejudge the charges a little, no?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:44 am
by mèþru
New York white supremacist sword attacker pleads guilty (from BBC)
The headline sounds to me like the sword attacker killed a white supremacist, but the supremacist is the attacker.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2019 8:03 am
by akam chinjir
mèþru wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 7:44 am
New York white supremacist sword attacker pleads guilty (from BBC)
The headline sounds to me like the sword attacker killed a white supremacist, but the supremacist
is the attacker.
My first parsing had someone attacking a white supremacist sword.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 9:58 am
by Linguoboy
New York's Punjabi Deli: a safe place for cab drivers at risk of disappearing (Roadsandkingdoms.com)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 11:05 am
by mèþru
I'd never have guessed that the article didn't involve kidnapping
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:19 pm
by Salmoneus
A quite unfortunately missing comma from wikipedia: That daughter also appears, as Gaia Donzella, in the Tavola Ritonda, where she is kidnapped by the knight Burletta of the Desert (Burletta della Diserta) who wants to rape her but is rescued by Lancelot.
To be fair, Gaia Donzella's mother is Morgan le Fay, so technically both parsings are probably accurate here...
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:51 am
by Salmoneus
Politico:
Dems press agency head for White House plan on Fannie, Freddie
So many things...
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:54 am
by Raphael
Salmoneus wrote: ↑Sat Jan 26, 2019 8:51 am
Politico:
Dems press agency head for White House plan on Fannie, Freddie
So many things...
Is the person in question someone like The Head from
Against Peace and Freedom?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2019 11:51 am
by Salmoneus
Got me bemused for a minute or so, from the BBC: Tesco counter cost cuts to hit 9,000 jobs
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:17 pm
by Salmoneus
Politico headline: 2020 hopefuls woo House frosh
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:27 am
by Raphael
Salmoneus wrote: ↑Sat Feb 02, 2019 4:17 pm
Politico headline:
2020 hopefuls woo House frosh
Was that written by a Politico intern whose first language is German and who couldn't remember the English word for "frog"? But if that's the case, who is the "House frog" and why are 2020 hopefuls wooing it?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2019 9:48 am
by Pabappa
Frosh is a slang term for freshmen... which in this case almost certainly means Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... better known these days as AOC.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2019 5:23 am
by Salmoneus
This one makes sense, except for its highly-misleading line break:
Ex-Arsenal striker denies
Juventus in thrilling match
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2019 3:31 pm
by Pabappa
THis one is obviously deliberate so I debated about putting it here, but, since I actually did get confused by this, here i go:
BEZOS EXPOSES PECKER
also at
https://nyp.st/2DZyD4A , not sure who had it first. The HuffPo story seems to have removed the headline now.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 10:43 am
by Vijay
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2019 11:41 am
by mèþru
Sadly, that mayor was arrested for "terrorism" not that long after that story
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:18 am
by Qwynegold
Not a confusing headline, but I just wanted to share this awesomely clunky quintuple compound from msn.com:
Fotbollsmålvaktslegendar död - blev 81 år
fot-boll-s-mål-vakt-s-legendar död blev 81 år
foot-ball-GEN-goal-guard-GEN-legendary.ANIM dead become.PST 81 year.PL
Football goalkeeper legend dead - became 81 years old