Confusing headlines

[Travis B.]

From WOIO Cleveland 19 News^1,2:

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.

[Raphael]

From the What do you call... thread in the Languages forum here:

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.)

[salem]

From the What do you call... thread in the Languages forum here:

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.

[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.)

[Qwynegold]

AI hittar fler sjukdomar än människor

This one works in exactly the same way when translated to English:
AI finds more diseases than people.

[Raphael]

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?

[Qwynegold]

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.

[bradrn]

Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'

Exercise: find the verb!

[Man in Space]

Former Glasgow Lord Provost convicted of stalking posts Hogmanay moan about 'gaslighting'

Exercise: find the verb!

“Posts”.

[bradrn]

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.

[alice]

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?

[bradrn]

“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?

I don’t know, but it happened to me too.

[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’…

[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?

[bradrn]

Ahead of Clinton testimony, Epstein c’tee Democrat says ‘wrong president’ being grilled

[bradrn]

A classic:

Outsider lives on Union Street