If the target audience interprets it a certain way, then that is the correct meaning.
You can’t live in a world where you’re not the “target audience”, can you?
For what it’s worth, English is my second language but I’m clearly fluent, and I understood the title’s intent and didn’t assume the priest related to it was the one who did it.
That said, the title is not the clearest, it could be confusing; if I’m confused about something like this, I’d usually clarify it and react to the clarification.
It appears you really don’t like the idea of being an outlier who didn’t get it, and that maybe makes you feel dumb, do you want all of us to coddle you with agreements and praise of your intellect and persuasive argument.
I don’t usually analyze people like this, I just wanted to be as annoying as you.
You can’t live in a world where you’re not the “target audience”, can you?
Why not? I’m pretty sure I’m not the target audience for Fox News articles.
But I think what you’re trying to get at is that not everyone in the target audience will have the same interpretation? Some, like yourself, will read it the way that the author intended. So consequently, you can’t write a headline that will be correctly interpreted by everyone. The best you can do is to write in a way that it’s correctly interpreted by as many as possible.
It appears you really don’t like the idea of being an outlier who didn’t get it
I’m not a fan of being the outlier that put so much effort into learning how neurotypical communication works only to be told that my understanding of neurotypical communication is wrong with no actual correction. I like to be able to understand other people, neurotypicals included, but if this isn’t how they would interpret this headline, I’d like to know how they actually do rather than just being told something like “if they interpret it differently, then they’re dumb and not worth your time”.
You can’t live in a world where you’re not the “target audience”, can you?
For what it’s worth, English is my second language but I’m clearly fluent, and I understood the title’s intent and didn’t assume the priest related to it was the one who did it.
That said, the title is not the clearest, it could be confusing; if I’m confused about something like this, I’d usually clarify it and react to the clarification.
It appears you really don’t like the idea of being an outlier who didn’t get it, and that maybe makes you feel dumb, do you want all of us to coddle you with agreements and praise of your intellect and persuasive argument.
I don’t usually analyze people like this, I just wanted to be as annoying as you.
The many do not agree with you.
Why not? I’m pretty sure I’m not the target audience for Fox News articles.
But I think what you’re trying to get at is that not everyone in the target audience will have the same interpretation? Some, like yourself, will read it the way that the author intended. So consequently, you can’t write a headline that will be correctly interpreted by everyone. The best you can do is to write in a way that it’s correctly interpreted by as many as possible.
I’m not a fan of being the outlier that put so much effort into learning how neurotypical communication works only to be told that my understanding of neurotypical communication is wrong with no actual correction. I like to be able to understand other people, neurotypicals included, but if this isn’t how they would interpret this headline, I’d like to know how they actually do rather than just being told something like “if they interpret it differently, then they’re dumb and not worth your time”.