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Bridge Crance Collapse

Bridge Crance Collapse

RE: Bridge Crance Collapse

Similar thing happened in Ohio when doing a bridge in Toledo. Wonder if they are the same people?

RE: Bridge Crance Collapse

In Toledo I believe it was the curve of the bridge in combination with the poor judgment and hubris of the contractor which caused the collapse. Killed several people.

Don't know if this is quite the same.

It can't be the same contractor since the Toledo contractor went under as a result (as well they should). It might be the same (Italian?) crane system, though.
 

RE: Bridge Crance Collapse

Hello all,

This is off-topic, but I was wondering if anyone noticed in the OP's referenced article, the liberal use of hyphens.  I assume this is a professonal writer, and was wondering if this is standard use of the hyphen in Canada.  Such as: "spokes-man", "drop-ping", and also in a two places, a pair of hyphens are used as substitutes for a pair of commas and a pair of parentheses.

Not being facetious,just curious.

Thank you,
EEJaime

RE: Bridge Crance Collapse

I'm not-being facetious-either but I-think it's a combination of modern computer-writing, incompetent-editing and journalese.  It has been a-while since I have seen much in-the-way-of real writing by any-one from a so-called journalism-school (apologies to my brother).  Add in the 140-character twit-or-is-it-tweet and the ubiquitous text-message composed of non-words & it-s a race to the bottom.  Those of us in Canada who actually use English are no less competent at it than those elsewhere.:)

RE: Bridge Crance Collapse

Trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the editor.  Perhaps they did not reformat the article for the website and the hyphens are due to the narrow columns of the print article.

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