Re: Name That Error
- From: Ron Hardin <rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:55:13 -0400
jimbotuk2000 wrote:
On Apr 11, 12:12 pm, Ron Hardin <rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The NYT opinion page
Having witnessed the economy floundering from Belfast to the
Bronx, the guillotine has yet to drop in New York.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html
(link good only through Saturday eastern time)
It's a dangling modifier except there's nothing for it to modify.
There's some adjunct with ``journalese'' in the name that it seems
to cross with, where an unrelated fact is slipped in as a modifying
clause.
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rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
Why oh why oh why. Where, o wise one, is the unresolved anaphor?
What's the subject of ``having''?
My own feeling is that the French revolution is weighing heavily on the NYT.
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rhhardin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
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