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benhall.1 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:51 am What I really don't want to do, and always try to avoid, is to pick up on others' use of English ... but I'm really struggling with this phrase of yours:

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:43 am Now, over in financial news, in a GlobeNewswire press release for a new biotech startup, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, states:

I've read it over and over, and I can't get the meaning. There seems to be a missing subject. Who or what is it that "states"? Could you unravel it for me?

Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part. On Yahoo News, I read a GlobeNewswire story that was a press release for a new biotech startup company. The press release contains the quoted statement. The Mayo Clinic is collaborating/in partnership with the new startup.

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:00 am

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:51 am What I really don't want to do, and always try to avoid, is to pick up on others' use of English ... but I'm really struggling with this phrase of yours:

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:43 am Now, over in financial news, in a GlobeNewswire press release for a new biotech startup, in collaboration with the Mayo Clinic, states:

I've read it over and over, and I can't get the meaning. There seems to be a missing subject. Who or what is it that "states"? Could you unravel it for me?

Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part. On Yahoo News, I read a GlobeNewswire story that was a press release for a new biotech startup company. The press release contains the quoted statement. The Mayo Clinic is collaborating/in partnership with the new startup.

Got it. Thanks Kevin.

kkrell wrote:Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part.

So meta.

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 1:40 pm

kkrell wrote:Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part.

So meta.

Yes.

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:20 pm

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 1:40 pm

kkrell wrote:Sorry, that is due to sloppy writing on my part.

So meta.

Yes.

I know. I did think that. I thought it might have been a cunning ploy on Kevin's part.

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 9:52 am

kkrell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 3:20 pm

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 1:40 pm
So meta.

Yes.

I know. I did think that. I thought it might have been a cunning ploy on Kevin's part.

No.

Now there's a clickbait touting "The test that will tell you if someone is a psychopathy".

My confident is not exactly brimming.

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:38 pm Now there's a clickbait touting "The test that will tell you if someone is a psychopathy".

My confident is not exactly brimming.

You have been filtered out as not being part of the target demographic.

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 2:38 pm Now there's a clickbait touting "The test that will tell you if someone is a psychopathy".

My confident is not exactly brimming.

Leaving aside the daft error in that for a moment ...

I've taken one of those 'Are you a psycopath?" tests on several occasions. Sometimes they tell me I am a psycopath, and sometimes they tell me I'm at the opposite end of that particular spectrum. I haven't worked out why that is ... maybe it's just that different tests test for different things ...

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:20 pm I've taken one of those 'Are you a psycopath?" tests on several occasions.

I've never taken one because I'm afraid it'll tell me I'm not.

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 31, 2022 6:20 pm ... maybe it's just that different tests test for different things ...

This is where we call in the statistician. Or a psychologist. Or both.

Is debunkery medical advice?

Here's another clickbait headline: "[Photos] *****'s Famous Wife That Few Know About." (name obscured because I'm a gentleman; make what you will of the full stop).

Do I need to pose the obvious question, here?

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:38 pm Here's another clickbait headline: "[Photos] *****'s Famous Wife That Few Know About." (name obscured because I'm a gentleman; make what you will of the full stop).

Do I need to pose the obvious question, here?

I've just Googled the phrase "Famous Wife That Few Know About" (without the full stop). I get page after page after page of different articles, most with a different man's name. It must be some kind of obsession about such things.

I'm not getting what your "obvious question" is.

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:06 am

Nanohedron wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 12:38 pm Here's another clickbait headline: "[Photos] *****'s Famous Wife That Few Know About." (name obscured because I'm a gentleman; make what you will of the full stop).

Do I need to pose the obvious question, here?

I've just Googled the phrase "Famous Wife That Few Know About" (without the full stop). I get page after page after page of different articles, most with a different man's name. It must be some kind of obsession about such things.

I'm not getting what your "obvious question" is.

Didn't any women have famous wives?

The definition of "famous" is "known about by many people." I suppose the obvious question is how the headline can possibly be true?

benhall.1 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 1:06 am I'm not getting what your "obvious question" is.

If she's so famous, why do few know about her?

"Undiscovered species of dinosaur surprises researchers"

Yes, I know, I know: The copywriter's trying to be economical by making inferences. But you cannot be surprised by what has not been discovered.