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:
Teenager in well plunge

1 comment:

  1. 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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