As I’ve said for years, English is a shit language.
Bob sent a birthday card
Means Bob mailed it to someone
Bob was sent a birthday card
Means Bob received it.
We still keep headlines short, so the “was” gets dropped, and we’re left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.
It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.
As I’ve said for years, English is a shit language.
Means Bob mailed it to someone
Means Bob received it.
We still keep headlines short, so the “was” gets dropped, and we’re left with an ambiguous sentence that literally means the opposite of what context clues tell us it means.
It makes sense when you realize headlines start out as full sentences but then get trimmed down as short as possible.
Headlinese
Yeah, it’s all shit our brains account for like 99% of the time so we don’t even realize it.
If you don’t learn it when your little, it’s always going to be weird.
But if people stop to think about it, most can’t explain why it still makes sense.
@davel is right though.
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Exact same length and unambiguous.