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Unrelated question about "San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents" Is this sentence clear for a native speaker of English? I
by BrandoElFollito 2y ago
Unrelated question about "San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents"
Is this sentence clear for a native speaker of English?
I read the article and as far as I understand there is software that makes it that rents are high and SF wants to ban it.
Now when I carefully parse the words it makes sense (~ "SF seeks to ban some software, and this software is criticized for making rents high")
Was the title clear and understandable to you after a single pass?
- winthrowe 2y agoIt was clear and understandable to me, but follows a format I've seen many times. Headlines in English tend to have a style that's widely used, but would not be considered good usage outside of headlines, which I could expect to be troublesome for non-native speakers.
- rpdillon 2y agoYep, on first read I happened to get it right, but on further examination, I see the ambiguity. The trick is to not associate "software" with "critics", even though they're right next to one another and software could be an adjective rather than a noun.