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I am having trouble making sense the word "parks" in the title. Is "GM parks" an entity, or is this a mistake and "parks" is just an extra verb in there?
by pitaj 2y ago
I am having trouble making sense the word "parks" in the title. Is "GM parks" an entity, or is this a mistake and "parks" is just an extra verb in there?
- userbinator 2y agoI was also wondering which parks GM owned, and thought "claims" was a verb.
- wat10000 2y agoIt’s a verb, to park, as in to put something in a particular place and leave it there. Here, it means that they’ve settled the claims, promised to behave in the future, and they’re moving on. It is very awkward and seems impossible to understand without reading more. Maybe it makes more sense to the British.
- gnfargbl 2y agoIt does not make more sense to the British, this is just the particular "clever" writing style favoured by The Register. Maybe it was sharp in the 2000s, I can't honestly remember, but these days it makes the site pretty much unreadable for me.
- mathieuh 2y agoIt's a poor choice of words considering GM makes cars, yes in other contexts I would read "parks" as "shelves" or "puts on hold" but even with your explanatory note it took me a couple of reads to figure out what the title actually means
- wat10000 2y agoI assume they chose it exactly because GM makes cars. El Reg likes being clever even to the detriment of clarity.
- avvt4avaw 2y agoThey are using "parks" to mean "settles"
- verdverm 2y agoYea, trying to be funny with target specific references, only to construct a difficult to parse sentence. It's like saying a certain politician would love to couch a certain meme
- permo-w 2y agoat least that pun makes sense. in this context, "park", as I understand it, means to temporarily put something aside, generally something you have control of, like "let's park that idea and move onto ...", not like claims adversaries are making.
- alias_neo 2y agoIt's how the register rolls. What they mean is, they parked it, like a car, put a stop to, ceased movement.
- pitaj 2y agoThere must be some way to have their wordplay without such a clunky sentence.
- verdverm 2y ago"GM stopped in their tracks before they cruised over people's privacy rights further" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/cruise-settlement-victim-self-driving-gm/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/15/cruise-...
- alias_neo 2y agoI must admit, even as someone who's used to their headlines, this one took me a second.
- neallindsay 2y agoI think that "addresses" would be a better word there? I guess they were going for a pun, but it didn't land for me either.
- thousand_nights 2y agosame, absolutely terrible choice of a verb for the headline
- bityard 2y agoIt's a pun. As in, "parks a car."