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Two centuries of journalistic tradition disagree with you. Newspapers have always dones this, hence my comment on the native speaker. If you're a native speaker
by vacri 10y ago
Two centuries of journalistic tradition disagree with you. Newspapers have always dones this, hence my comment on the native speaker. If you're a native speaker, you will have grown up with this kind of pun happening around you all the time.
And yes, my tone might be a bit aggressive, but people making trivial complaints about titles has been on the rise at HN recently. I've been hanging around here for years, and it's never been a problem before. You then talk about (horror!) having to read the first two sentences of the article to realise that it's not in fact a nuclear meltdown, though really you should have realised there wasn't a nuclear meltdown when it mentioned students a dozen words in.
Besides, reading it the way you're suggesting would mean that the supposed nuclear meltdown was caused by the scrutiny, which is just nonsensical.
This is what frustrates me into making these comments; that people prefer to be spoon-fed content rather than use their brain a little.