T and X

A sentence from The Guardian :

The US defense secretary unveiled plans for a new screening program for testosterone deficiency among troops that will work to ensure service members have the “right testosterone levels” to perform at their optimal conditions in a video posted to X.

I shudder to think what kind of performance will be required of these, uh, service members. Moving the words “in a video posted to X” to the front of the sentence makes for a less startling though still loony-tunes statement. Perhaps someone at The Guardian slipped in a deliberate touch of the loony.

As The Guardian notes, “[Pete} Hegseth’s announcement did not address the more than 231,000 women who serve as active duty service members in the US military.”

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[This post is no. 135 in a series dedicated to improving stray bits of professional public prose.]