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It's interesting that the headline of an article about the Rosetta Stone has grammatical tense incorrect. "Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion d
by IncRnd 4y ago
It's interesting that the headline of an article about the Rosetta Stone has grammatical tense incorrect.
"Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion deciphers the Rosetta Stone"
should be
"Two hundred years ago, Jean-François Champollion deciphered the Rosetta Stone"
- kweingar 4y agoHeadlines pretty much always use the historical present tense. If this is incorrect, then so is the entire front page of the New York Times today, e.g. "Senate Passes Bill to Aid Ukraine and Avert Government Shutdown" (should it be "passed"?)
- IncRnd 4y agoThat's not true, and certainly not true enough to make such sweeping generalizations. From the actual New York Times regarding their editing standards for writing headlines: [1] Headlines are written in the historical present tense. That means they written are in present tense but describe events that just happened. The exception to that is when you're reporting on something that happened quite some time ago." The Rosetta Stone wasn't just deciphered. [1] https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general/weblines/521.html https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/general...