I was looking through some local news headlines and came across one I thought was kinda' funny (not the topic):
A 20 year old Augusta man dies in a drowning accident tonight at Clark's Hill Lake.
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Re: Funny news headline
It is slightly crap English. However, 'drowning' is sometimes taken to mean the filling of the lungs with fluid, not necessarily death therefrom.
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Or are you trying to point out that it's in the present tense instead of the past?
Yes indeed. I don't think the subject is funny, just the way the journalist worded it.
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