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I've read the article and still have no idea how the title was approved by an editor. It makes no sense.
by throwaway284534 10y ago
I've read the article and still have no idea how the title was approved by an editor. It makes no sense.
- Normal_gaussian 10y agoIt makes perfect sense to me. Then again I bake a lot. Its structered like a recipe. "Recipe for chocolate coating: Whisk sweetened cream with cocoa paste at low heat." "Recipe for shortbread: Bake mix of plain flour, caster sugar and unsalted butter until lightly coloured" "Recipe for runny egg: Add egg to buttered pan near edge" "Recipe for pointless egg: Add egg to oiled pan near centre"
- throwaway284534 10y agoThe first part seems to work. What does the second part mean? Put the sea floor on dry land? What? Is the dry land being lowered to sea level? Is sea floor dirt being moved?
- adrusi 10y agoIts using the term "sea floor" as an ingredient, "dry land" as a location. "Put rocks from the sea floor on a plot of dry land". To be fair to the editor, I don't see how "put x on y" could ever lead someone to ask the question "is y being lowered to x?".
- yuzi 10y agoIt's because people identify "sea floor" as being in a, relatively speaking, fixed position. Moving rocks from the sea floor != move sea floor.
- f_allwein 10y agoWhat they mean is: the seafloor is raised up by the process of plate tectonics over millions of years. Sounds less catchy though.