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What's with the BBC's childish description of Elon Musk as "The billionaire"?
by matthewfelgate 3y ago
What's with the BBC's childish description of Elon Musk as "The billionaire"?
- drcongo 3y agoIt's kinda standard practice in low journalism in the UK to describe people in lots of pointless ways in a single article. Usually the first mention includes their age in brackets for some reason. The BBC should really be better than that though.
- oneeyedpigeon 3y agoIt's pretty common to use another noun in writing like this, to avoid saying "Elon Musk" all the time. Adds a bit of variety and is less jarring.
- Fnoord 3y agoWe could make one up? Like Muskuito, or simple Musk or Elon (less common). I mean there's the Ratner effect. Why not an Elon effect? The combination of Ratner effect and Osbourne effect is known as the Elop effect [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#%22Burning_Platform%22_memo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#%22Burning_Platfo...