[Ads-l] Crash-blossom OTY

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not perfect, but close enough for government work.

On the TV screen, with all caps,  the "on" was easily misread (or, better,
"automatically absorbed )" as "of."

JL

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:46 AM, Joel Berson <berson at att.net> wrote:

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> Well, at least they got the preposition better than "for" or "of".=C2=A0
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> at is, I don't think there is a "deputy mayor on Paris", so that I find
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>  headline a bit difficult to read as "the deputy mayor on Paris attacks
> the=
>  victims."
> Deputy mayor "for" or "of" Paris seems to crash more loudly.=C2=A0 And
> "Dep=
> uty mayor for Paris attacks victims" crashes with a different ambiguity --
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> is the deputy major for (does he support) the Paris attack victims?
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> Joel
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>       From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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> CNN caption:
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> "DEPUTY MAYOR ON PARIS ATTACKS VICTIMS."
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> JL
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> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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