Re: Name That Error
- From: grammatim <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:04:07 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 11, 7:12 am, 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.
On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
It's called a "dangling participle," jerk, and it's called "dangling"
precisely because there is no overt semantic item for it to modify.
Syntactically, it modifies "guillotine."
Nothing to do with "'journalese' in the name."
A far more significant solecism is the assumption that "the Bronx" is
not in "New York."
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