[Ads-l] self-incriminate

Mark Mandel mark.a.mandel at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 4 19:08:47 UTC 2019


Yes, ungrammatical. I tried to see the story to find the context, because
the headline is quite unclear, but there's a paywall.

Mark Mandel

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 1:57 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
wrote:

> The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday March 3, 2019 page A5 had the headline
> "Taking on haters from the inside: A black civil rights activist took over
> a neo-Nazi group and has moved to self-incriminate it."
>
>
> http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/ODN/PhiladelphiaInquirer/Default.aspx
>
> Is it just me, or is there something ungrammatical about this headline?
>
> - Jim Landau
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