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Doesn't "Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal" mean it's legal not to pay interns, but illegal for them to grow up?
by vv 17y ago
Doesn't "Growth of Unpaid Internships May Be Illegal" mean it's legal not to pay interns, but illegal for them to grow up?
- jackowayed 17y agoIf anything, I'd say it technically means "it was legal when they were rarer, but now that they're becoming more common, it's illegal" as it's the growth of unpaid internships, not of unpaid interns, that may be illegal. They were trying to fit the fact that unpaid internships may be illegal and the fact that they've been growing all into one title, and it didn't work so well. But splitting hairs a) is kind of annoying, and b) doesn't add anything to the conversation about the content of the piece.
- gojomo 17y agoAlways Read Charitably. (Especially, when author is facing formal constraints, as in a headline, tweet, article/op-ed with limited word budget, etc.)
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- Confusion 17y agoComments on (the literal meaning of) titles of articles are hardly ever a valuable contribution to the discussion about the subject of the article. We are all aware that journalists often make up less-than-ideal titles. Let's not reiterate that point ad nauseam.
- jrockway 17y agoNo, it doesn't mean that.