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The wording is a bit weird though, isn't it? Why wouldn't you write "filmmaker from Mobile, AL"?
by peepee1982 4y ago
The wording is a bit weird though, isn't it? Why wouldn't you write "filmmaker from Mobile, AL"?
- bookofjoe 4y agoYou and Harold Ross; you are now ready to become an editor at the New Yorker. >One of Gibbs’s rules (No. 17) offers a lucid explanation for a tenet of New Yorker style that has puzzled writers (and some editors) for generations: “I almost forgot indirection which probably maddens Mr. Ross more than anything else in the world. He objects, that is, to important objects, or places or people being dragged into things in a secretive and underhanded manner. If, for instance, a profile has never told where a man lives, Ross protests against a sentence saying, ‘His Vermont house is full of valuable paintings.’ Should say ‘He has a house in Vermont and it is full, etc.’ Rather weird point, but it will come up from time to time.” And it does. source: https://archive.ph/RygOF https://archive.ph/RygOF
- greenie_beans 4y agoyou are right, but in the writer's defense, he mentioned Mobile in the first paragraph so it's not totally out of context.
- SllX 4y agoDunno. Ohio-native, San Francisco-native, Portland-native, this is a construct that isn’t all that uncommon in headlines. “Mobile” just has an additional meaning so you need context, but you also need context for which “Portland” one might be a native to.
- usefulcat 4y agoI think it shouldn’t be hyphenated