• casmael@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Sorry I’m super tired and this title is fucking with me…. ‘Shows daylight with Biden’ what? What does that mean?

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      3 months ago

      I think “showing daylight” is a metaphor for there being space between two things or ideas. So in a sense her and Biden’s views on Israel are not conjoined, hence “daylight” can be seen between them, like slats in a fence.

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        3 months ago

        This makes sense thanks for the explanation 🙏 - also realised that the phrasing of the headline tripped me up. It says Harris shows daylight ‘with’ Biden which i think is completely the wrong word to use there, but i suppose they had written themselves into a corner by insisting on starting the sentence with ‘Harris’

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        3 months ago

        I feel like they’ve butchered it as well - surely this phrase needs to take the form of ‘daylight’ (or not) between x and y? Use of ‘with’ tripped me up - daylight with Biden? I guess they meant that Harris skipping the address ‘showed daylight’ between her and Biden on this issue, but i would give them an F for phrasing tbh. Complete trainwreck if you ask me.

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          3 months ago

          It’s not necessarily “wrong” the way they said it, but headlines can often have some tortured grammar.

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        3 months ago

        Yeah i read the article and understood what happened, still don’t understand the headline tho

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        3 months ago

        For no reason at all, I’m posting the fact that you can also click the “don’t be a dick” button…

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            3 months ago

            They didn’t ask what the article was about, they asked what that specific (somewhat uncommon) term meant. Maybe they’re young, maybe they have a disability, maybe this is a 2nd language for them, etc…