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?
