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Upon reading the submission title, first I tried to notice if I do smell toast right now because I know all of the words there yet it makes no sense taken toget
by pilsetnieks 4y ago
Upon reading the submission title, first I tried to notice if I do smell toast right now because I know all of the words there yet it makes no sense taken together.
Reading the article helped unpack this particularly egregious title, yet it let me baffled because surely websites aren't limited by column inches like the papers of yore. While no doubt those past constraints have birthed wonderful examples of brevity like "Foot Heads Arms Body" and the like, these days I see no purpose in giving one's readers a mild sense of aphasia for no reason.
- Waterluvian 4y agoThe title is fine if you’re in the audience who knows the two proper nouns and then the common GDQ concept of a “showcase” and the tech concept of a beta. Which for The Click is most of their readers.
- jannyfer 4y agoThe actual article’s title is fine for me, it’s just this HN submission’s title that’s hard to parse.
- dang 4y agoThe submitter had to shorten it to fit HN's 80 char limit. We've shortened it differently now. (Submitted title was "Games Done Quick Ocarina of Time beta showcase standing ovation")
- rkagerer 4y agoFor anyone wondering, "Foot Heads Arms Body" originates from a Guardian headline purportedly run in the 80's when Labour Party leader Michael Foot traveled to Brussels to chair a European Parliament lobby group pushing for nuclear disarmament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Foot#Foot_Heads_Arms_Body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Michael_Foot#Foot_Heads_A...
- thaumasiotes 4y agoI still think "Iraqi Head Seeks Arms" is a better headline. ;D