Timeline for Structure of the headline "Olympics organizers scramble as furor over woke blasphemy grows."
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| Aug 2 at 11:32 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Standard but terse and with very little redundancy, which is why the OP was having difficulty. | |
| Aug 1 at 15:47 | comment | added | Lambie | @MichaelKay The OP said: "[the] structure feels like it's just a set of randomly ordered words". I know all about headlinese. Not all headlines are the same. Some drop words or determiners, others do not. The OP was wondering here about the grammar, which happens to be completely standard. | |
| Aug 1 at 15:39 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Headlines have conventions of their own, in particular there is very little context to help you, and to understand their meaning I think you often have to be aware of the conventions adopted by headline-writers. | |
| Aug 1 at 15:17 | comment | added | Lambie | @MichaelKay So what? It is still grammatical English without any shortcut(s) and I have explained it. No need to try and parse its "ideology". | |
| Aug 1 at 13:26 | comment | added | Michael Kay | Moreover, "Furor Grows" is headline writer's shorthand for "More and more journalists are picking up this story". | |
| Aug 1 at 13:18 | comment | added | Michael Kay | "as" is a headline writer's shorthand, it says that two things are happening, and implies without actually saying so that they would like you to think the two things are connected. "Riots in Southport as Temperatures Reach 30°C" is a classic example. Similar: "Record Number of Migrants Arrive as Minister Basks in the Sun". | |
| Jul 30 at 20:27 | comment | added | Yakk | My point is, "Bob dropped a rock as the sun rose" would be a joke headline if the sun rising was completely unconnected (other than time) to Bob dropping the rock; there is a strong implication in the "as" connecting them to have more meaning beyond "at the same time as". | |
| Jul 30 at 20:24 | comment | added | Lambie | @Yakk as at the same time that something else happened. The stock market crashed as [at the same time that] the country went to hell. | |
| Jul 30 at 20:21 | comment | added | Yakk | "at the same time that" is a bit off -- the implication is closer to "due to the concurrent", but admittedly that is just implied. | |
| Jul 29 at 14:31 | history | edited | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29 at 14:23 | history | answered | Lambie | CC BY-SA 4.0 |