Fixing a crash blossom
Published by marco on
I recently read the headline Vacuum suction-mounted wireless TV zip lines off faulty walls to safety by Scharon Harding (Ars Technica). What an incredible crash blossom. The author used one hyphen but more punctuation would have been better.
How about:
- Original
- Vacuum suction-mounted wireless TV zip lines off faulty walls to safety
- Add punctuation
- Vacuum-suction-mounted, wireless TV zip-lines off faulty walls to safety.
- Remove redundancy
Vacuum-Suction-mounted, wireless TV zip-lines off faulty walls to safety.- Restore phrase
- Suction-mounted, wireless TV zip-lines to safety off faulty walls
to safety. - Use preposition
- Suction-mounted, wireless TV zip-lines to safety from faulty walls.
- Precise condition
- Suction-mounted, wireless TV zip-lines to safety if wall fails.