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Yeah, the idiom “this kid” got mistranslated into “a kid” on the link headline.

by hahajk 8y ago

dang 8y ago
That's not an idiom, that's a clickbait trick. Our software catches that one and rewrites it sometimes. In this case it got it right.
- guiambros 8y ago
  Here's the artist 6 years ago [1]. The Flickr has tons more photos from the same year (2013). Assuming the article got his current age right, he was 16 when he started the model, and 19 when he started posting to Flickr (and amazing progress by then; most of the model was ready). So I think it does qualify as a "kid". Maybe a more precise title would be "Artist started building a paper model of a Boeing jet when he was a teenager; took 9 years to finish", but I didn't feel deceived by the current title. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/in/album-72157639452020185/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/...
- baroffoos 8y ago
  How is 'this kid' more clickbait than 'a kid'?
  - dang 8y ago
    It's the 'this' that does it. 'Kid' is baity too, but there are degrees.
    - code_duck 8y ago
      What’s the psychology of that, though? How does ‘this’ attract more clicks than ‘a’?
      - dang 8y ago
        Your just-so story is as good as mine, but FWIW my theory is that "this" is the verbal equivalent of physically pointing at something. So its role in a headline is analogous to those people who stand at a busy intersection shaking a gigantic cardboard pointer to some nearby store.
  - lupire 8y ago
    "this" is zero value clickbait and easy to catch. "kid" is a lie in this case, but it's hard for software to detect that automatically.
- lupire 8y ago
  That's wonderful news. I've been begging for this for years.
  - dang 8y ago
    You'll be happy to hear that we invested a lot of software effort into this recently, and are catching a ton of cases. Unfortunately, it's hard to do well and impossible to do precisely, so we have to be more modest than we'd like. Still, if you post "These secrets of the story behind exactly these things", the title will convert to "Things".

Yeah, the idiom “this kid” got mistranslated into “a kid” on the link headline.

by hahajk 8y ago

Yeah, the idiom “this kid” got mistranslated into “a kid” on the link headline.

dang 8y ago

That's not an idiom, that's a clickbait trick. Our software catches that one and rewrites it sometimes. In this case it got it right.

guiambros 8y ago
Here's the artist 6 years ago [1]. The Flickr has tons more photos from the same year (2013). Assuming the article got his current age right, he was 16 when he started the model, and 19 when he started posting to Flickr (and amazing progress by then; most of the model was ready). So I think it does qualify as a "kid". Maybe a more precise title would be "Artist started building a paper model of a Boeing jet when he was a teenager; took 9 years to finish", but I didn't feel deceived by the current title. [1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/in/album-72157639452020185/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/lucaiaconistewart/11782600196/...
baroffoos 8y ago
How is 'this kid' more clickbait than 'a kid'?
- dang 8y ago
  It's the 'this' that does it. 'Kid' is baity too, but there are degrees.
  - code_duck 8y ago
    What’s the psychology of that, though? How does ‘this’ attract more clicks than ‘a’?
    - dang 8y ago
      Your just-so story is as good as mine, but FWIW my theory is that "this" is the verbal equivalent of physically pointing at something. So its role in a headline is analogous to those people who stand at a busy intersection shaking a gigantic cardboard pointer to some nearby store.
- lupire 8y ago
  "this" is zero value clickbait and easy to catch. "kid" is a lie in this case, but it's hard for software to detect that automatically.
lupire 8y ago
That's wonderful news. I've been begging for this for years.
- dang 8y ago
  You'll be happy to hear that we invested a lot of software effort into this recently, and are catching a ton of cases. Unfortunately, it's hard to do well and impossible to do precisely, so we have to be more modest than we'd like. Still, if you post "These secrets of the story behind exactly these things", the title will convert to "Things".