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[–] 0 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Because of your additional normative position that that's somehow a bad thing, instead of being a perfectly normal part of language that you have the faculties to easily resolve, as mentioned above.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    No, buttercup, it's not a bad thing to point out that poor phrasing is poor.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    Poor by what objective metric that doesn't ultimately boil down to "because I said so"?

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I'd ask you the same question, chuckles, if you hadn't already agreed with my initial assessment.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Pragmatics-Blackwell-Textbooks-Linguistics/dp/139419675X

    Enjoy! Just because you're ignorant about something doesn't mean everyone else is too.

    In short, a headline being interpretable from available context is a descriptive, empirical phenomenon, as opposed to the question of whether ambiguity is "bad", which is a normative, unprovable statement with no objective merit.

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