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| big_D wrote: Who wrote that headline? Shouldn't that be "Italian terror cell..."? | |
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They were 'foreign nationals' in Italy, seemingly.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Apr 24, 2015 5:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Italy terror cell that plotted to bomb Vatican |
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/a ... rror-raids Good work, but it feels like the PR dept. got a hold of it. Maybe MI5 and 6 can be taught by the Italians though. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 6:44 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Italy terror cell that plotted to bomb Vatican |
Who wrote that headline? Shouldn't that be "Italian terror cell..."? |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 7:28 am ] | |||||||||
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They were 'foreign nationals' in Italy, seemingly. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Italy terror cell that plotted to bomb Vatican |
It would still be grammatically correct to describe them as an 'Italian terror cell' given they were operating exclusively in Italy. For example, Manchester United are 'an English football team' despite few of the players in the team being English. Pretty much any way of making the distinction that they were operating in Italy but not of Italian origin in a single sentence would make for some very clunky language indeed. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Sun Apr 26, 2015 5:22 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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The "muslim extremist terror cell in Italy" would be better... Whichever way you cut it, "Italy terror cell" is wrong. Italy: terror cell... could work. |
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| Author: | brataccas [ Sun Apr 26, 2015 8:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Italy terror cell that plotted to bomb Vatican |
well their title obviously "cells" better 
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