BBC News grammatical triumphs
Name:
Posting Password:
URL:
Quote:
He told Polish TV viewers in October in his first - and only - public interview so far (on the occasion of the anniversary of Pope John Paul II's election back in 1978) that he will not emulate the stream of encyclical letters (14 in all) produced by his predecessor.
Comments:
Was there some kind of competition for "Most parenthesised sentence" at BBC News? Leaving that aside, let's exclude the "and only", like we're allowed to do with parentheses. We now have "...in his first public interview so far...". Trust me, that's going to remain his first public interview. It only has one parenthesis fewer, but I think my version's more readable: "In October, on the occasion of the anniversary of Pope John Paul II's 1978 election, he told Polish TV viewers in his first (and thus far only) public interview that he will not emulate the stream of 14 encyclical letters produced by his predecessor."