Frances Glessner Lee created miniature death scenes to train investigators in the 1940s

[kingannoy]

@anothernewbbaccount

Apparently Disqus dislikes us replying to each other so many times and I need to ‘encourage everyone to get involved in the conversation’. Probably best not, I suspect.

I’ll help with quick reply to get Disquss off your back

@anon50609448

In this headline, the word “train” is the verb meaning to instruct or educate. It is not the word “train” the noun meaning a locomotive pulling cars.

I had the same issue with this sentence. I don’t know why.

@anothernewbbaccount

I spent half my career editing and writing English such that it would be utterly unambiguous for people whose first reading language was not English. It’s amazing how many good English writers would write things that WERE ambiguous and could have been better written if they’d stopped to think about their audience for two seconds.

Writers of headlines usually have no concerns for readability, they mostly care about clickbaiting and you do that by cramming a entire story in a minimal amount of words. My expectations for headlines are low, I expect hard to understand, convoluted sentences. Maybe that is why I didn’t see the obvious meaning.