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to provide an answer to how to make a particular point without ambiguity
A) I wasn't being particularly facetious. I think if the issue comes up ten years later all the hed need do is point out that there was something new.
2) I think your wording, even in the context of the original time frame, still mistates the issue. It wasn't his request that delayed the report, his request was that he be allowed to delay the report.
Personally I would go with Starr Asks to Delay Report for the contemporaneous hed, if that passes muster with those who know the carved-in-stone rules of hed writing and my New Findings Re Starr Report for the present-day revisiting, remembering that we have space restrictions to consider in any of these.
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The very fact that you are able to state, unequivocally (and correctly) that I have mis-stated the issue shows, I think, that my hed is, at least, unambiguous. I had forgotten exactly which was the correct fact.
So, it should have been
Starr requested report's delay ,
which is just as unambiguous and, I have to say, takes less room than your contribution.
FWIW, I completely agree with you that your hed would arouse interest in those who would be interested. But IMAO, that isn't what we were trying to do - we jes wanna hed that gives specific information without misunderstanding.
- and I didn't for a moment think you were being faceitious, my dear fellow.
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A garden path sentence is one that you think you are following quite nicely until you get toward the end and find it suddenly seems to mean nothing at all.You can't tempt me with that, Faldage. I'm only a drone.  Seriously, we say babies "bounce" because it rhymes with "ounce". And there is more bounce to the ounce in a baby, than in anyone else.
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I hesitate to add another word at this late date, but in my experience the correct phrase is "RED rubber baby buggy bumpers". Never thought of hyphenating the phrase.
The bumpers would add to the bounciness of the buggy,and
of the baby when in the buggy, right?
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I reckon there's no "correct" or "incorrect" in a folk tongue-twister. The question of hyphenation, however, remains in the air (not unlike bouncing babies).
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