Llove Letters

When I am surveying the “news” of the day, I am sometimes stopped by a headline that doesn’t make sense to me. Of course, I know one can read with “inflection,” but so few people do. Well, here’s the headline: Turkish forces shoot dead ferry hijacker. (Yahoo News Thumbnails) The brief article cleared up the quick misunderstanding – why would Turkish forces shoot a dead hijacker? (Just imagine you are scanning articles quickly) Here’s a better way to say what they meant – Turkish security forces shot dead a suspected Kurdish rebel early Saturday to end a 12-hour hostage drama on a small passenger ferry. (IBID) Sometimes (unfortunately) when we…