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> Also you should stop conflating "has a pun" and "is a garden-path sentence" in your other line of conversation, thanks Yeah, a niche journal targeting the po
by vacri 10y ago
> Also you should stop conflating "has a pun" and "is a garden-path sentence" in your other line of conversation, thanks
Yeah, a niche journal targeting the power industry should be careful not to instill momentary panic in their specialist readership that way. They should definitely use the blandest terms possible.
It's just another reason why these complaints about titles are irritating - people demand titles for the general public from sources catering to specialists, implying that it's bad journalism to do otherwise.
> by the standards of headline-writers, so I'm done
If you were going by the standards of headline-writers, you wouldn't have started here. This kind of headline has been par for the course for almost as long as there's been headlines.
- Dylan16807 10y agoYou are completely misreading me somehow. I like the pun. The pun is great. My dislike of the garden-path sentence has nothing to do with the pun. I do not want bland terms at all. Pun headlines are standard, garden-path ones are not. If there had only been one claim then "Molten Salt Reactor Claim Melts Down Under Scrutiny" would be a great headline. Witty but not grammatically confusing.