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It is probably a pun the author could not resist. Dramatic? Perhaps. Amusing? Definitely.
by algon33 7y ago
It is probably a pun the author could not resist. Dramatic? Perhaps. Amusing? Definitely.
- pcmaffey 7y agoShould have gone with: The World’s Great Photographers, Many Shuttered Inside, Snap
- birdyrooster 7y agoIt's really sad to see them lose their composition like this.
- leeoniya 7y agowell framed
- selimthegrim 7y ago*sense of proportion FTFY
- throwanem 7y agoIt's a photography pun. The whole thread is photography puns. Just as well they seem to have stopped down pretty quick. I don't think there's enough depth of field to really capture the subject.
- Symbiote 7y agoDeveloping this thread is just panning for a negative reaction. Even low-key jokes are frowned upon on HN.
- selimthegrim 7y agoF-stop it.
- louwrentius 7y agoStopped down, nice!
- selimthegrim 7y agoWhat and mine ain’t?
- dahart 7y agoDamnit, now I know I’ve been inside reading bad news too long. I just told my wife this pun that I failed to get, and she is literally rolling on the floor laughing at me.
- C19is20 7y agoLiterally literally, or just lol?
- pstuart 7y agoI literally fight this battle with my kid every day. That word is the new "like".
- dahart 7y agoFWIW, literally has been used to mean figurative emphasis for over 200 years... I used to correct my kids too, but then realized that all my ideas about common grammar mistakes are wrong. ‘Myriad of’ isn’t incorrect, the word myriad began as a noun, just like dyad or triad. ‘I am good’ is a perfectly fine way to respond to ‘how are you?’ There’s nothing wrong with verbing nouns, etc., etc.. It seems like it has become fashionable to write blogs posts complaining about other people’s grammar mistakes. (Though, maybe articles whinging about bad grammar is a past-time as old as dirt...) I’ve stopped believing any grammar complaints because there’s a lot of misinformation. Plus, the cool thing about language is that it changes. Something being used incorrectly by the majority of a population makes it de-facto correct. Anyway, you gotta sit back and enjoy the word fads that kids go through. They do grow out of weird word habits that seem annoying all by themselves. They just say certain words a lot because all their friends are saying them too, so there’s no way us parents scolding them for it will convince them it’s uncool; it’ll just make them think their parents are old... which we are. ;)
- dahart 7y agoI might in danger of failing to get another joke here, but she was lying on the floor while I was typing that, so yes literally literally.
- billfruit 7y agoI feel more and more that newspapers should avoid all kinds of figurative language and express all in the most functional plain language.
- BubRoss 7y agoReading hacker news has made me think the same thing. I'm not sure why people seem to have no problem with being bated and lied to to get their attention.
- ergothus 7y agoI mention this correction only because it remains surprisingly significant in todays world: Most new authors have zero influence on the headlines. This is (partly) why you see so many headlines that are clearly contradicted by the associated article.