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The Mechanics of Language

10 December 2006
Filed under Language, Text, The Media

Here’s a spectacular piece of sub-editorial ambiguity for you: there’s an article on The Age website today entitled Sex: teens want more than mechanics, which I (wrongly) guessed would detail the results of a survey suggesting that young people are hornier than men who work on cars. In fact, it’s about teenage frustration with only being taught the ins and outs, as it were, of sex, while being left in the dark about the emotional complexities thereof. Love it.

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kate says:

I misunderstood that headline in exactly the same way. Sadly, the success of the DLP was not just in the headline (although not as successful today as they seemed yesterday). Tis not every day that I greet the front page of the paper with "Oh for fuck's sake".

stu says:

I understood it as, yeah I'll screw a few mechanics, but just for entrée.

stu says:

another beautiful one at The Age today: "Turkey slaps ban on youtube"

Speak, friend, and enter


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