Re: Ask EU: Sprayer repairs
- From: mower man <"nospam>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:28:39 +0000
Siderius Nuncius wrote:
"Stephen" <stephenbowden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
I saw a great example of this in a slightly different context. Sky
News has a rolling banner along the bottom of the screen with the
latest "headlines". These are virtually unpunctuated, and all upper
case. They scroll across the screen so you can't tell how they are
going to end when you start reading them. I was struck by the one
which started:
DOCTOR WHO FAILED TO SPOT BABY P'S INJURIES AFTER MONTHS of ABUSE...
Commas wouldn't have helped this, but I noticed in RT a programme whose title was written as "Take That Come To Town", which made me do a very large double-take. To my intense relief it seems to be about a popular beat combo called Take That.
I blame the capitalization.
So do I, but quotation marks in the original piece might have helped as well - "Take That" come to town.
--
Chris
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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