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Yes, flagship is pretty normal usage, very strange quibble to have.
by stuaxo 3y ago
Yes, flagship is pretty normal usage, very strange quibble to have.
- ajmurmann 3y agoI don't think the word "flagship" is the issue. The issue is that no other noun follows. If this was "flagship factory" or "flagship truck" it would be much clearer. To me the headline wasn't clearer do to "flagship" being followed by "socked" which I am most commonly used to seeing as a noun rather than a verb, especially in a news article rather than a conversation in a pub.
- theodric 3y ago^correct As a Car Guy, when they said 'battery flagship', I immediately understood that to mean the F150 Lightning: the top-of-the range version of their most popular vehicle, which also (now) runs on batteries. (The Lightning used to just be an obnoxiously-fast V8 truck.) Therefore: "Ford's F150 Lightning is moldy." Ew, nasty! Finding out that the author didn't intend "flagship" mean the truck, but a factory, is baffling.
- tomjakubowski 3y agoJust search "flagship" on Google News and you'll see it is quite often used as a noun, and you're meant to infer what the thing is.
- zdragnar 3y agoIt's a descriptor, not a noun (since we aren't discussing an actual flag ship). The title doesn't actually say anything meaningful.
- zo1 3y agoIt's not normal usage at all, as it's missing the main "thing" that is the flagship. Flagship What?? Imagine it applying to any other thing to see what we mean. Google's flagship? Samsung's flagship? Apple's flagship? What it should be: Google's flagship product Samsung's flagship feature phone Apple's flagship iphone
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoMaybe because it is a simple typo, with order of words. It is obviously an article about a factory that makes batteries, and it is important to Ford.