Parallel syntactic structures and the twitterpocalypse

Fri Dec 20 00:12:34 UTC 2013

Apparently, the authors and editor(s) of the following NBC News story
believe that "same-race marriages" were illegal until 1967. Perhaps
they were confused by the syntactically parallel structures: "same-sex
marriages" and "same-race marriages".

Title: Gay marriage advocates win out in New Mexico; other state
efforts more doubtful
Authors: NBC's Vaughn Hillyard and Pete Williams
Website: nbcnews.com
http://firstread.
/_news/2013/12/19/21972868-gay-marriage-advocates-win-out-in-new-mexico-other-state-efforts-more-doubtful

[Begin excerpt]
The court compared the lack of governmental interest in classifying
marriages between same-sex couples to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1967
ruling legalizing same-race marriages.
[End excerpt]

NBC News did tweet a link to this story. Evidence of the proof-reading
twitterpocalypse?

[Begin tweet]
NBC News First Read @NBCFirstRead

Gay marriage advocates win out in New Mexico; other state efforts more
doubtful http://nbcnews.to/1cUNXLa

6:37 PM - 19 Dec 2013
[End tweet]

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