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Mary Erickson
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Registered: 04-2004
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I need some feedback. In our daily paper, which is quite small, there was a headline on the front page, which stated: Clerk mulls voting centers.
Without my glasses I thought it said mauls and became quite interested. But when I put my glasses on I saw that it said "mulls." I think to be correct it should have said "mulls over."
Mary
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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Registered: 06-2002
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I think it should also be mulls over....... to mull is to sweeten as in wine or cider or mead; a kind of sheer cloth; or a type of mold as in: friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath or a finely powdered solid especially in a suspension; or as you are thinking and many use, to ponder and is usually used with 'over' as in mulls over or mull over.
Mull by itself is a totally different word if it is not used as a thought process.
BTW, I'm done with your book and found it thoroughly enjoyable reading. I will be posting a review of it to you and you can do or put it anywhere you want, but that will be in a day or two as I have to get my other reviews in to Myshelf tonight. I tried to see if Myshelf would be intereted in having this review for your book, but got no answer, will try again later, after the ruckus is settled for the months content for the webpage is finished.
Claudia
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Matt Dinniman
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Both are correct. In the past five years CNN.com has had 12 articles with "Mulls Over" in the headline and over 300 with "Mulls" without over as headlines. |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
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but in the case of what the headline stated, "Clerk mulls voting centers" it would seem that the clerk was making the voting center sweeter by making it a cider and adding sugar, or making the voting center a sort of humus with a layer of dirt that was being made into a mulch of sorts. I think that to make the statement clearer, the headline should have read "Clerk mulls over voting center strategies or place, or numbers of people attending to business there" or at least something to denote a thinking process is taking place and not an addition of a sweetner like in adding an ingredient to make mulled wine.
They really are seperate words and meanings. How do you make a voting center sweeter, or how do you figure out a voting center. The main thought of the sentence/headline/statement was not clear to begin with, and should have had something more in the way of definition. "Clerk mulls over voting center availability" type of thing would have been more appropriate.
That just illustrates the type of thing that is taking place in our breakdown of the language system in this country and age in time. There is more slang and minimal usage of descriptive words that are needed to make a complete statement and make sense of something that is obscure. But by doing that and committing that breakdown, it changes the actual word to mean something else, totally different. If it is in the interest of space savings on the headline, then the next sentence should read something about and a follow-up of the headline like "Clerk mulls voting centers.... 'placement in schools and how that would affect the students learning on voting day.'"
Claudia
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Mary Erickson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 04:35 pm: | |
Thanks Matt & Claudia for your wise words. Claudia, I love what you wrote. We now have a kinder and gentle IRS. Why not a sweeter voting center? Perhaps the clerk is mulling or mulling over whether or not to serve wine. LOL.
Glad you liked my book. Thanks much for reading it.
Mary
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cora morace
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Registered: 11-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - 08:03 pm: | |
Good grief - any editor worth their salt would have axed that whole headline!
Some words just do not belong in the context of banners. That it appeared in CNN.com merely proves this. Obvious neophyte stylistic journalism. Somebody was desperate and on deadline.
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