Am I the only person who finds that headline grammatically odd?
Nope. I think I see why, too.
The letters for the word "owl" are found, in order, in the word "knowingly". Also, the word "faulty" contains the letters "faul" which scans like "fowl", or bird; and the last three letters of the word "fowl" are "owl".
It looked odd to me, but I didn't analyze it until you pointed it out.
It's what I call a "hmm...onym". I looks weird but you don't know why at first.
And wouldn't you like to spend a couple of weeks with Gerry Verner?
Previously, a government witness and leading expert on the California spotted owl, Gerry Verner, testified the study was sound. "I came away with the strong impression that it was, in fact, within my gestalt notion of what suitable nesting habitat is after having walked through dozens of places like this throughout the Sierra Nevada and in other parts of the owl's distribution throughout the West," Mr. Verner said.
As he drove through the forest, Mr. Verner said, "I had the feeling I was never outside a stone's throw of suitable foraging habitat at least."
"I said to a couple of fellows there, 'If there's not a pair of spotted owls occupying this site, I'll spring for a Chateaubriand for two.' I was that convinced that there's a pair of owls in there that has not, at this point, been detected yet," Mr. Verner said.
Wasn't "Gestalt Notion" a band from the 60's? I know "I've got a feeling" is a Beatles song.
Nope. I think I see why, too.
The letters for the word "owl" are found, in order, in the word "knowingly". Also, the word "faulty" contains the letters "faul" which scans like "fowl", or bird; and the last three letters of the word "fowl" are "owl".
I thought it seemed odd because the adverb "knowingly" does not apply to any sentient action by any entity explicitly or implicitly mentioned in the headline.
Had the adjective been replaced by a past participle of a verb, e.g., "Owl data knowingly forged", that would clearly be an abbreviated version of "Owl data [is/was] knowingly forged [by someone]". As such, the adverb "knowingly" clearly applies to the implied actor.
As the headline is written, however, the only entity to which the adverb "knowingly" could apply would be the data itself. I find it amazing that any type of data, whether generated honestly or not, could have the level of sentience applied thereby.