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I am commenting just because I take issue with the headline. The bruise did not spread to his other hand. He has a bruise on one hand and a separate bruise on another hand. There’s no spreading because that’s not how a bruise works. It’s not fucking contagious.
I don't want to think about any part of his body whatsoever, but he does generally wear a shirt and jacket so we don't see his arms or chest. It's possible that the bruise on his hand did literally spread to the other hand via his arms and torso.
They were being snarky.
You are using entirely the wrong sense of the word. It didn't spread like a rash, it spread like an idea. It spread like a bad smell. It spread like a poorly kept secret.
Like an extra airy fart in a hot, humid room.
For sure. I do understand how it was used, but it still sounds stupid. Just write, “Bruise appears on Trump’s other hand—speculations rise” or something to that effect.
Edit: I think in a world where people just read the headlines, and with many Americans reading at a low level, that people might take it more literally which I why I don’t like the headline as written.
And to forestall your next objection, headlines ARE poetry. It's a form of constrained writing with hundreds of years of poetic conventions and devices.
It's the kind of poetry a Vogon would produce after his second Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.
Source : Took journalism in school and it fucked up my ACTs.
There's nothing poetic about the comma conjunction.
The same is true of natural language to a great extent. It's metaphor and idiom all the way down, with a bit of grammatical glue. Well, a lot of grammatical glue in some languages.
Imagine a world with no poetry. How horrid. Let stupid people be confused, they are perfectly used to it and have a faculty for it you cannot defeat.
I hear what you’re saying, but let poetry be in poems and let direct truth be in headlines. I don’t see a reason to pretty up news.
Damn it, your predictable knee jerk response was almost faster than I could anticipate. That's how basic you're being right now.
You cannot fit "truth" in an entire broadsheet page, let alone a headline. That is why it is unavoidably poetic. I'm not making an analogy, headlines literally are poetry.
It could have migrated...
If it were a brown migrant ICE would have disappeared it already.