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"Crack Wide Open" does not imply that at all. It implies a difficult problem that suddenly yields. When the police officer on the murder drama says this clue
by jessriedel 10y ago
"Crack Wide Open" does not imply that at all. It implies a difficult problem that suddenly yields. When the police officer on the murder drama says this clue will "crack the case wide open", he doesn't mean they've been doing their police work wrong.
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- pdonis 10y ago> "Crack Wide Open" does not imply that at all. In isolation, it might not. Taken by itself the phrase is open to multiple interpretations. But in the context of the article as a whole, I think it does.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoI agree with jessriedel. I don't think the implication is there. I also think it's generally bad for discussion to do what you are doing, which is to latch on to a very specific interpretation of a single phrase, and pushing to get everyone else accept that interpretation, instead of taking other comments as additional information about how the words can be interpreted and allowing for those different interpretations to coexist.
- pdonis 10y agoPersonally, I think that what is bad for discussion is to do what Scientific American did, which is to talk about a scientific discovery in terms that make it seem much more radical than it really is, for no reason that I can see beyond trying to attract readers. The headline is only one aspect of that, as my other comments in this discussion (not just this subthread) should make clear.