Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by CapitalistCartr » Mon, Jun 20, 2022, 2:52 PM UTC

Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters
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Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by rdtennent » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:02 PM UTC

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by smegsicle » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:10 PM UTC

rdtennent wrote: post #2

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

the use of an en-dash rather than a regular hyphen implies that these unexploded hunters are in particular looking for unexploded bombs

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-dash#Attributive_compounds

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by globalise83 » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

rdtennent wrote: post #2

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

The bomb-hunters that the author tags along with are, so far, unexploded. Both meanings work nicely in this context.

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by pnemonic » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:45 PM UTC

rdtennent wrote: post #2

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

Obligatory

https://xkcd.com/37/

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by Arrath » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:47 PM UTC

rdtennent wrote: post #2

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

> The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded.

They're the good bomb-hunters, then.

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by marvinvz » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

Those old bombs are still around in Germany (unsurprisingly). This was a controlled explosion of one in munich 2012: https://youtu.be/idF3Nq11BcM

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by nwiswell » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 9:10 PM UTC

Arrath wrote: post #6

rdtennent wrote: post #2

The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. The title should refer to unexploded-bomb hunters; that is, the unexploded refers to bombs, not hunters.

> The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded. They're the good bomb-hunters, then.

Or just bad at the hunting part.

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by latchkey » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 9:23 PM UTC

Here we are today, with the Russia / Ukraine conflict and all of the leftover stuff from that which is being created on a daily basis, sigh.

Re: Tagging Along with Italy’s Unexploded Bomb–Hunters

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 9:39 PM UTC

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