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And the award for best headline goes to ...
by spookybones 7y ago
And the award for best headline goes to ...
- pier25 7y agoYeah it's pretty confusing. The article explain later what that means: > Europe’s five hottest summers in the past 500 years have all occurred in the last 15 years, not including this summer.
- rrix2 7y agoMore colloquially/informally, a "500 year event" is something which has historically once every 500 years.
- mhh__ 7y agoIt made sense to me? Is it an obscure idiom (Native English speaker, so hard to tell)?
- baal80spam 7y agoI'm confused, how do you know the summers in question have been the hottest, not the coldest for example?
- happytoexplain 7y agoAssumption - corroborated by reading the article. That's often unavoidable by the nature of headlines. The fact that the headline writer successfully communicated the correct assumption means they did their job.
- zeeZ 7y agoI initially parsed it as five summers, each lasting 500 years, in a time span of 15 years. Logic then kicked in and "corrected" it to five summers, each as summer-y as 500 years worth of summers combined, in a time span of 15 years. I had to read the article to finally made sense of it.