Irritating 's

current mood: stressed
So, the BBC has taking to using single quotes when there is some as-yet-unproved allegation or statement in their news articles. (It apparently takes up too much screen-space to say "alleged.")
Now, it's not necessarily a bad approach, until you get headlines like Italian sex scandal woman 'dies'
It just makes it look like she didn't actually die, but was somehow faking it. Maybe that's because here in the States we use "air quotes" to imply that whatever is in the quotes is how someone else described it and probably not true? I don't know, but it just makes my brain cringe when I see it in this sort of case.
I mean, at least put it around the woman, since someone did actually die! 'Italian sex scandal woman' dies, for example. That's the bit you're not sure about. Someone really is dead, after all.
Aaanyway. Avoiding work. Can you tell?



















