reversed "blame"

[Joel S. Berson]

Why all the fuss about this particular headline?  I read "Obama
blames Congress Republicans on bus tour" as "Obama blames
Congressional Republicans on bus tour", with at worst a poorly placed
"on bus tour" -- "Obama, on bus tour, blames Congressional
Republicans."  The "Obama blames Congress Republicans" seems
analogous to the use in headlines of a place-name noun instead of an
adjective in cases like "Turkey army invades Persia" vs. "Turkish
army invades Persia".

Joel

At 8/27/2011 01:46 PM, Arnold Zwicky wrote:
>first "substitute", now "blame":
>
>http://arnoldzwicky.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/reversed-blame/
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