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Off topic, can someone shed any light on the "The <adjective> <quality> of <noun>" style headlines we see everywhere now? Every second headline in The Atlantic
by mdifrgechd 6y ago
Off topic, can someone shed any light on the "The <adjective> <quality> of <noun>" style headlines we see everywhere now? Every second headline in The Atlantic is structured this way and I see it all the time in similarly aligned publications.
- frutiger 6y agoNot really shedding much light but I believe this was the origin: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene....
- dredmorbius 6y agoYes. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+unreasonable+effectiveness+of+*&year_start=1900&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=the+unreasonab...