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Not being fluent in American English, does that headline make any sense at all? Because it sure doesn't in English English.
by drcongo 12y ago
Not being fluent in American English, does that headline make any sense at all? Because it sure doesn't in English English.
- corin_ 12y agoTo me it makes sense but doesn't parse nicely at all (also British here) - i.e. doesn't confuse me, but I absolutely would re-write it if I was the editor.
- sp332 12y agoNope, not even American Headlinese where you can get away with "Infant Pulled from Wrecked Car Involved in Short Police Pursuit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntactic_ambiguity#In_headlin...
- alistairSH 12y agoWhile it might be technically correct, it's extremely awkward, doesn't roll off the tongue at all, and I had to read it several times.
- daledavies 12y agoI don't think anybody actually saw anyone doing anything did they?! I can see what they were trying to say, but certainly wouldn't have written it like that.
- camperman 12y agoIt's grammatically incorrect. English pluperfect tense should be used like so: Sony Hackers Seen Snooping for Months, Planting Bomb The actions of snooping and planting the bomb are in the past but before the implied event of discovery which is also in the past so it must be pluperfect. The form "Having Snooped" can only be used in a pluperfect inversion such as: Having snooped around for months, the hackers planted a bomb.
- drcongo 12y agoThank you!
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