I forgot to include these yesterday.
-- War not determine who is right; war determine who is left.
-- Passionate kiss like spider web; soon the fly is undone.
-- He who make Confucious joke English not so good.
Great headlines...
I admit, as a Beatles fan, that I'm biased but I simply love this headline in ST Life! (11 Oct, page C10):
The story also said another (unnamed) newspaper, in reporting Sir Paul's new marriage, had this lovely headline: "Yes-today".
ST has, apart from the one above, been having a good crop of headlines:
"Spas open 24 hours to meet customers' kneads" (10 Oct, page B1)
"Ad ab-solutely by the book... Billboard put up only after BCA okay: A&F" (8 Oct, page A14).
A cheeky headline...
New Paper (last Sunday's edition) can get away with this one; I doubt if ST can:
And a strange ST headline:
This headline above appeared in last Saturday's ST (8 Oct), as part of its special report on Singapore's prison service. It is kind of surreal to call our prisons the "world's best"! I can almost hear the prisoners exclaiming, "It's a great life here, so give me life!". Oh, boy.
And still dangling...
I wish the sub-editors can really spot dangling participles. This glaring one is from the page one lead today (ST, 11 Oct, "Govt pledges better life for all"):
"Having done well in strengthening racial and religious harmony, Dr Tan said Singapore must now try hard to prevent a new fault line from forming..."
We can achieve zero tolerance with regard to dangling participles because they are so easily correctable, as in this rendition:
"Dr Tan said that Singapore, having done well in strengthening racial and religious harmony, must now try hard to prevent a new fault line from forming...".
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