benhall.1 wrote:
This next one is quite possibly not wrong ... but I have no idea what it could mean:
BBC website wrote:
Hate U Give lead found criticism 'hard'
I'll have a look at the article ...
OK. Kind of makes sense now I've read what it's about. But it's about as clumsy a way of writing a headline as I have seen. I think the substitution of one word, "actress" (or "actor" if we're being PC) for "lead" would have made things a lot clearer.
Please, Ben. Just have the good grace to accept that you're no longer
au courant. It'll be less embarrassing all around.
But seriously, I agree with you; as it stands, the headline is horrendous writing. Even a simple "The" at the beginning (which is part of the movie's proper title, after all) would at least have gone a long way toward easier reading, even if it still would have left the reader none the wiser.
Sometimes I think these writers make headlines abstruse on purpose, as a lowly tactic to get people to read the article. But it's really hard for me to give them as much credit as that; in the end, I think it's just a case of chops is as chops does.
walrii wrote:
Nanohedron wrote:
Crawforde wrote:
Sometimes what I think is normal, isn’t.
Tell me about it...
Abnormal is the new normal.
You know, it just occurred to me that people haven't told me I'm weird in quite some time, now. Maybe it has nothing particularly to do with me.