Wednesday, 14 November 2007

Brand New Cold Case

Assuming the third word is true, there is at least one error in this title.

Can you spot it?

4 comments:

  1. 2 missing commas?
    As in 'Brand, new, cold case'?
    That's the best I can do. I'm pretty proud of that actually...

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  2. Nah, Haysey.

    You don't need to put a comma before a single adjective, like 'new', and surely 'brand' modifies 'new' or at least they form a single adjectival unit.

    (This is based on the assumption that 'Cold Case' is a unit too - it's not the Case which is brand, new and cold, it's the Cold Case which is Brand New).

    This is riduculous - I'm going to study for my OT exam.

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  3. its oxymoronic isnt it?

    You cant have a brand new cold case, a cold case is by nature old....

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  4. Can't be 'new' if it's a 'cold' case. Cause 'cold case' refers to an 'old' investigation that has stalled and so has remained unsolved as the leads have dried up.

    That's my thinking.

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