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Wired readers are prepared to assume that, as the editor who wrote the headline knows.
by swatcoder 3y ago
Wired readers are prepared to assume that, as the editor who wrote the headline knows.
- defrost 3y agoWorks for a US centric magazine, sure - just as Crikey readers would have a different take away. Point being made by the user ramraj07 above is that in a global forum such things often require clarification, many countries have states, and many countries refer to other countries as states.
- swatcoder 3y agoIt's a US magazine writing a headline for US readers and international readers who are aware of its context, being posted a site that requires verbatim use of article headlines. If somebody posts a BBC article about chips, we don't need to have a whole discussion about word choice. Even for those who don't automatically contextualize those things, it takes about 3 seconds to sort it out.
- defrost 3y ago> If somebody posts a BBC article about chips, then someone invariably steps in and translates the cooking tempreture to Fahrenheit, and someone else points out that cars in the UK drive on the left it it's relevant. > we don't need to have a whole discussion about ... differences between countries, and yet, consistently, we do.