Thursday, April 19, 2007
 
Certainty in a Headline
Finally, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch drops all mincing words and qualifiers and boldly asserts something without a doubt:

'Doomsday vault' near North Pole will keep species safe from war, disaster

A highly speculative science fiction story that has so far only received some funding gets the solid verb tense. But deal with something that happened, and the Post-Dispatch will append ",(common noun) say" to the end.


 
To say Noggle, one first must be able to say the "Nah."