Sunday 18 August 2013

Double-take, # 13

This sentence, in a BBC News report on commemorating Magna Carta, is not best phrased:


The above screenprint was taken on 14 August, 2013, at 11:22. Someone has obviously recognized the phrasing as problematic, as the later edition (14 August at 15:36) has added punctuation:


Instead of removing the problem, this has emphasized it. Yet it could have been resolved quite easily by moving a single word to the previous paragraph and deleting the rest of the phrase:


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