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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2025 10:54 am
by Travis B.
bradrn wrote: ↑Sun Dec 07, 2025 5:46 am
Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Dec 06, 2025 8:55 pm
From
WOIO Cleveland 19 News1,2:
City of Akron reveal new city logo
I was taken aback for a second because I wanted to parse “reveal” as a noun. The
pluralis majestatis verb agreement for a city is not customary here—I’d have expected “reveals”, and “reveal” sounds just
wrong to me.
Huh, is it really that rare in US English? To me it’s perfectly normal.
(Also, I wouldn’t call it a
pluralis majestatis — it’s simply that a city council is made up of multiple people. In UK English it’s standard for governments to take plural agreement; in Australian English either is possible.)
Things like cities and governments almost always take singular agreement in NAE ─ which makes this news title very, very odd to me.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:16 pm
by Raphael
From the
What do you call... thread in the Languages forum here:
salem wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:03 pm
I learned about this method from cooking Youtube,
I have my issues with Big Tech myself, but I'm not sure I'd go that far...
(Please don't be offended, salem. I'm just teasing a bit.)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:18 pm
by salem
Raphael wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:16 pm
From the
What do you call... thread in the Languages forum here:
salem wrote: ↑Sat Dec 13, 2025 5:03 pm
I learned about this method from cooking Youtube,
I have my issues with Big Tech myself, but I'm not sure I'd go that far...
(Please don't be offended, salem. I'm just teasing a bit.)
Oh yes, delicious Youtube stews and braises 🙂↕️. The website's code, hyperoptimized as it is, benefits really well from a long cooking time to let it break down and become tender.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2025 10:23 pm
by zompist
Trump admin broke spending deal agreement to halt mass layoffs, judge rules
Ambiguous between the administration halting or enabling mass layoffs.
(Real-world knowledge helps. Of course the Republican administration broke the law in order to fire workers.)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 4:20 pm
by Qwynegold
Dagens Nyheter wrote:AI hittar fler sjukdomar än människor
This one works in exactly the same way when translated to English:
AI finds more diseases than people.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 4:23 pm
by Raphael
Qwynegold wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 4:20 pm
Dagens Nyheter wrote:AI hittar fler sjukdomar än människor
This one works in exactly the same way when translated to English:
AI finds more diseases than people.
Nine billion diseases?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2025 6:11 pm
by Qwynegold
Raphael wrote: ↑Wed Dec 31, 2025 4:23 pm
Nine billion diseases?
That's how I thought too at first. Apparently they had first written "AI finds more diseases than people do", but then removed the last word.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 9:24 am
by bradrn
Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'
Exercise: find the verb!
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:21 am
by Man in Space
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 9:24 am
Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'
Exercise: find the verb!
“Posts”.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:48 am
by bradrn
Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:21 am
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 9:24 am
Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'
Exercise: find the verb!
“Posts”.
Yes, well done. It is
not ‘moan’, no matter what I may have thought at first.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 2:37 pm
by alice
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:48 am
Man in Space wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:21 am
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 9:24 am
Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'
Exercise: find the verb!
“Posts”.
Yes, well done. It is
not ‘moan’, no matter what I may have thought at first.
Why did "posts" immediately make me think of streetlamps there?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2026 2:38 pm
by bradrn
alice wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 2:37 pm
bradrn wrote: ↑Sat Jan 03, 2026 11:48 am
Yes, well done. It is
not ‘moan’, no matter what I may have thought at first.
Why did "posts" immediately make me think of streetlamps there?
I don’t know, but it happened to me too.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2026 1:10 pm
by bradrn
Call of Duty removes streamer’s skin after homophobic comments
Apparently one person on Twitter commented, ‘the punishment is a bit medieval but I appreciate the enthusiasm’…
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2026 12:06 pm
by Raphael
From the Irish Times:
Man arrested for questioning about murder of Co Kerry sheep farmer Michael Gaine
So the guy was just asking questions about the murder of a sheep farmer, and that was seen as a sufficient reason to arrest him?
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2026 10:25 am
by bradrn
Ahead of Clinton testimony, Epstein c’tee Democrat says ‘wrong president’ being grilled
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2026 10:00 am
by bradrn
A classic:
Outsider lives on Union Street