A delightful headline that will likely see much attention from the syntax-minded. A better headline: “In TED talk, Pope warns powerful to act humbly or risk ruin.” Or in what sounds to me more like journalese: ”Pope, in TED talk, warns powerful to act humbly or risk ruin.”
[Got a hat tip at Language Log.]
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Risking ruin in a TED talk
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I hear Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction:
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Ha!
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