Headline undercutting the text

[redbird]

There's an article in today's NY Times Magazine arguing that we shouldn't worry about languages dying out. I disagree with the author, in part because we disagree over the accuracy of translation. The odd thing is that I think an editor there agree with me: the headline is "If all languages are equal, why does it matter when one of them dies?" and my immediate reaction was to substitute "men" for "languages" in that question.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

Although - I'm sorry, I can't help it - strictly speaking it's 'different from' not 'different than.'

Sorry. You know how these things are.

[avram]

Not “different to”?