Vaster?
He embiggened the plot
Perfectly cromulent word there.
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it took me a full minute to parse this headline
Same, thanks a lot English. I was like “so, is he like $4 million more than the $6 million dollar man?”
… am I the only one who didn’t have problems with the headline?
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People read around here?
Pretty simple to understand.
I came across this several hours later and just now realized there needs to be a comma after the word “Stealing”. I thought it was some new weird ass wall street economic crime term, “stealing speaks”?
No, there should not be a comma there. “The $10 million Eric Adams is charged with” is the subject of the sentence. If you make it less complex, like “the money speaks to a vaster plot”, it should be obvious that “the money, speaks to a vaster plot” is incorrect.
The mess of prepositions does make it awkward, but there’s nothing incorrect about it. It could easily be made more clear with phrasing like “Eric Adams’ $10m theft charge indicates a larger plot”. You could spice it up with more colorful synonyms if you want, but I would still avoid “speaks”.
Another way to put it that shows that there should be no comma : “Eric Adams is charged with stealing $10M. This speaks to a larger plot.”
Ironically, the comma you used here is inappropriate for the same reason.
Hah, you caught it before the edit. I had rewritten the sentence and the comma was a leftover from the previous syntax.
Honestly campaign matching funds from tax payer dollars to the tune of $8 to $1 just sounds like a bad idea. Am I missing something ? *Why in the fuck would we want to get big money in local politics?
Re read it, it’s designed to get big money OUT of local politics. Still don’t understand how this is best solution to that though.
