this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2024
337 points (98.8% liked)
Not The Onion
12200 readers
846 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Comments must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Most tone-deaf "Umm actually.." I've ever seen lmao
Edit: "Excalibur" is obviously a metaphor for "sword in stone"
Maybe the most deliberate "D'oh"
Uhm ackshually I think it's more a metonymy than a metaphor :D
I'm ackshually one of the lucky 10000!
I’m being a bit tongue in cheek, though for the record it’s unlikely that Arthur or Excalibur actually existed. Where it’s known that Roland and Durendal did. (Albeit, without all the fantastic and magical attributes ascribed in the Matter of France).
I’m just a huge nerd and get annoyed when people mix up their magical swords.
That's why I called you tone-deaf, not even the article "mixed up" their magical swords. It's saying "France's 'Excalibur'" referring to a sword-in-stone myth located in France, using its proper name a few lines in.
Using metaphors like that in titles is just a way to capture the readers attention. It's the fastest and most succinct way to discribe the news and have everyone understand the point of the article. It's not wrong, it's a metaphor.
I get annoyed by people reading only the headline and feeling like they have something useful to contribute.
how about people who do nothing except complain?
Like your OP?