The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot.
The $10 Million Eric Adams Is Charged With Stealing Speaks to a Vaster Plot.
U.S. Attorney Damian Williams’ indictment involves relatively small illegal campaign donations — but points to the mayoral campaign’s larger assault on New York City’s generous campaign finance program.
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Vaster?
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He embiggened the plot
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Perfectly cromulent word there.
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Expandeder
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it took me a full minute to parse this headline
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Same, thanks a lot English. I was like "so, is he like $4 million more than the $6 million dollar man?"
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... am I the only one who didn't have problems with the headline?
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Grammar enthusiast here. I get the sense it's fine without the comma people are thinking is needed.
"This incident speaks to a more vast plot." "The incident of washing machines washing laundry speaks to a more vast plot." "Pigs washing laundry in washing machines speak to a more vast plot."
Sure, like, if I say that out loud, I'd give a pause right before "speaks" so my friend could understand, but is it really its own clause? The "like" in my previous sentence surely doesn't deserve its comma; I just added it because I'm not beholden to an employer for grammatical correctness, and because idgaf-- I'm gonna simulate pauses in my writing for tone in informal places, and ain't no one gonna stop me >:u
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People read around here?
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Pretty simple to understand.
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I came across this several hours later and just now realized there needs to be a comma after the word "Stealing". I thought it was some new weird ass wall street economic crime term, "stealing speaks"?
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No, there should not be a comma there. "The $10 million Eric Adams is charged with" is the subject of the sentence. If you make it less complex, like "the money speaks to a vaster plot", it should be obvious that "the money, speaks to a vaster plot" is incorrect.
The mess of prepositions does make it awkward, but there's nothing incorrect about it. It could easily be made more clear with phrasing like "Eric Adams' $10m theft charge indicates a larger plot". You could spice it up with more colorful synonyms if you want, but I would still avoid "speaks".
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Honestly campaign matching funds from tax payer dollars to the tune of $8 to $1 just sounds like a bad idea. Am I missing something ? *Why in the fuck would we want to get big money in local politics?
Re read it, it’s designed to get big money OUT of local politics. Still don’t understand how this is best solution to that though.