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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:02 pm
by Linguoboy
Turkey fire: Dozens killed as hotel engulfed by flames in ski resort of Bolu (BBC)
First thing I thought of was all those
deep-fried turkey fail videos that circulate around Thanksgiving. (Perhaps not a locus for most English readers.)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2025 10:21 am
by Travis B.
Linguoboy wrote: ↑Wed Jan 22, 2025 10:02 pm
Turkey fire: Dozens killed as hotel engulfed by flames in ski resort of Bolu (BBC)
First thing I thought of was all those
deep-fried turkey fail videos that circulate around Thanksgiving. (Perhaps not a locus for most English readers.)
From that particular title I get the same immediate impression. Maybe someone started the ski resort on fire by trying to deep-fry a turkey...
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Jan 24, 2025 2:24 pm
by Zju
Croatian who wants to be a millionaire only gives 150000€
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 1:08 pm
by Linguoboy
Courtesy of the Grauniad: Ten thousand Kroger-owned grocery store workers strike in Colorado
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:06 pm
by Man in Space
Ten thousand [Kroger-owned grocery store] workers strike in Colorado – 10 kiloëmployees go on strike OR sack Denver OR find gold in them thar Rockies OR knocked down all the bowling pins
Ten thousand Kroger-owned [grocery store workers] strike in Colorado – Kroger has never heard of the Thirteenth Amendment OR Kroger hacked into their systems
Ten [thousand Kroger-owned grocery store] workers strike in Colorado – These ten dudes who have worked at one thousand Kroger establishments have finally had ENOUGH
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2025 7:07 pm
by bradrn
Calls for antisemitic taskforce
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 6:48 am
by bradrn
Architect to rich trials fast, low-cost Sydney housing
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 3:13 pm
by Raphael
Not a headline, and I'm probably the only person on this board who has the right combination of interests to find this somewhat funny, but it is about possible double meanings of written letters, so I'll post it here.
TV caption/chyron showing the score in a Gaelic football game, or circa 1989 post from a Star Trek-focused Usenet group?
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Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2025 7:22 pm
by Man in Space
More like “Confusing
AskReddit questions”, but courtesy of /u/Ill_Cover_4841:
Night owls of Reddit, what time do you wake up and go to bed?
When I read this first I defaulted to “and” being in the sense of “then”,
i.e. that you woke up just so you would then immediately turn around and go to bed.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2025 5:32 am
by Raphael
Well, I guess if you fall asleep on the couch in the evening, you might eventually wake up and go to bed.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:52 am
by Raphael
From one of the latest posts in the AI thread:
bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:34 am
Imagine, for instance, an automated lab assistant which can handle dangerous chemicals as well as humans.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 9:03 am
by bradrn
Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:52 am
From one of the latest posts in the AI thread:
bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:34 am
Imagine, for instance, an automated lab assistant which can handle dangerous chemicals as well as humans.
Oh, I didn’t notice that!
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2025 6:05 pm
by Man in Space
Raphael wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:52 am
From one of the latest posts in the AI thread:
bradrn wrote: ↑Fri Apr 18, 2025 8:34 am
Imagine, for instance, an automated lab assistant which can handle dangerous chemicals as well as humans.
It can contain dangerous chemicals to the same standards as it handles humans, it can plain old handle such chemicals and humans also, imagine a lab assistant fitting the description and think up several humans while you do so, or imagine a lab assistant whose skill with dangerous chemicals is comparable to that of humans.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:41 pm
by zompist
Title for a post over at Metafilter:
A Toronto Will Lawyer for Simple People
(From context, the poster was asking for a lawyer who does wills.)
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:48 am
by Raphael
zompist wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:41 pm
Title for a post over at Metafilter:
A Toronto Will Lawyer for Simple People
(From context, the poster was asking for a lawyer who does wills.)
So the poster called people like
themselves "Simple People"? That's interesting. Without that context, I'd have guessed that it's a rather condescending way to refer to
other people.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:05 am
by Raholeun
Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:48 am
So the poster called people like
themselves "Simple People"? That's interesting. Without that context, I'd have guessed that it's a rather condescending way to refer to
other people.
In Russian,
простой человек is considered a compliment.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 9:48 am
by Raphael
Raholeun wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 8:05 am
In Russian,
простой человек is considered a compliment.
Thank you, interesting. I guess "simple people" isn't that different from "regular people", which is a perfectly friendly term in English, too.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:49 pm
by Travis B.
In English "simple people" is a euphemism for intellectually-disabled people, whereas "regular people" is a perfectly normal way to refer to ordinary people.
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:44 pm
by jcb
Raphael wrote: ↑Sun Apr 20, 2025 5:48 am
zompist wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:41 pm
Title for a post over at Metafilter:
A Toronto Will Lawyer for Simple People
(From context, the poster was asking for a lawyer who does wills.)
So the poster called people like
themselves "Simple People"? That's interesting. Without that context, I'd have guessed that it's a rather condescending way to refer to
other people.
Less literate/well-read anglophones are unlikely to know that the second meaning/connotation of "simple" is "intellectually-disabled", much less the word "simpleton".
Re: Confusing headlines
Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2025 1:47 pm
by Man in Space
zompist wrote: ↑Sat Apr 19, 2025 5:41 pm
Title for a post over at Metafilter:
A Toronto Will Lawyer for Simple People
(From context, the poster was asking for a lawyer who does wills.)
I don’t know what’s more impressive: That there’s more than one Toronto, or that an entire city is willing to represent people in court.