President Donald Trump says he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.
Enjoy! Just because you’re ignorant about something doesn’t mean everyone else is too.
In short, a headline being interpretable from available context is a descriptive, empirical phenomenon, as opposed to the question of whether ambiguity is “bad”, which is a normative, unprovable statement with no objective merit.
No, buttercup, it’s not a bad thing to point out that poor phrasing is poor.
Poor by what objective metric that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “because I said so”?
I’d ask you the same question, chuckles, if you hadn’t already agreed with my initial assessment.
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Pragmatics-Blackwell-Textbooks-Linguistics/dp/139419675X
Enjoy! Just because you’re ignorant about something doesn’t mean everyone else is too.
In short, a headline being interpretable from available context is a descriptive, empirical phenomenon, as opposed to the question of whether ambiguity is “bad”, which is a normative, unprovable statement with no objective merit.
Christ, what an asshole.
But hey, at least you learned something today!
Christ, what an asshole.