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Erik, the BFG ([personal profile] erikred) wrote2005-04-21 08:18 am

Note to Would-be Journalists

Be careful how you phrase things, as this rather ghastly example from the BBC illustrates:

"Inside the tombs, the archaeologists found a cow's head carved from flint and the remains of seven people."

Ew.
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[identity profile] ophymirage.livejournal.com 2005-04-21 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Having just watched The Mummy and The Mummy Returns (ah, pseudo-30's-pulp movies, how I l0v3s you, that sentence made perfect sense to me, just as it is. ;-)