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What kind of awful title is that?????
I interpret it as a grieving father turning an accident into a heroic choice made by his son
Reminds me of the poor newscaster who was murdered and set on fire.
Hahahahaha what the fuck????
“They are to become an organ donor.”
I thought it's an onion article. We need new organs. Sweep some 10 year old into a storm drain
I thought I was the only one. Careless use of the word "to."
What's awful about it? Unless you mean that it's a ten year old passing away, that is sad.
The title makes it sound like the storm drain is some sort of organ harvesting machine and he was purposefully placed in there so his organs could be donated.
The unambiguous title should be,
"10-year-old swept into storm drain will become an organ donor, dad says"
The title used kinda sounds like the boy willingly swept into the drain "to" become an organ donor.
That's not really how that works though, so that misunderstanding is on the readers' part. One doesn't "swept" themself.
The other commentor has mentioned the correct phrase in the newspaper speak,
Without the "is", the ambiguity exists.
Why not? "Swept" is also the simple past tense of "sweep", in addition to the past participle used in passive voice.
Will simply have to disagree. This is perfectly normal for a newspaper headline and not ambiguous, to me.
"is". They literally just needed to add the word "is" to make it clear.
The frequency with which people have trouble with newspaper-headline grammar makes me feel old...
I’m only 33 and the title makes perfect sense to me.
I can see how if English isn’t your first language it can sound weird.
Feeling this myself right now.
When English isn't your first language, this is a really confusing title.
It's weird when English is your first language, too. No one speaks or writes like this except in Newspaper headlines.
I mean, why else would you sweep children into drains?
RIP little dude. My cousin died around the same age and also became an organ donor.