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Thursday, April 20, 2006
The headline writer's art
Michael Frayn famously discussed headline language in his novel The Tin Men. You can find a summary of his conclusions here.
The art, I am pleased to report, is alive and well in Shropshire:
Tin Men had fabulous characterisations of scientists cum software engineers well before software engineering really existed. Better than Spies and certainly better than Towards the End of the Morning. Comparable with Landing on the Sun and the Trick of it, I would say.
1 comment:
should of course be
teen well plunge
followed by
teen well plunge probe
and perhaps
teen well plunge probe move
Tin Men had fabulous characterisations of scientists cum software engineers well before software engineering really existed. Better than Spies and certainly better than Towards the End of the Morning. Comparable with Landing on the Sun and the Trick of it, I would say.
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