I wasn't really being cynical, but the writer was having fun with the typically small audience anywhere for poetry, and I couldn't help but laugh. As if the number was big enough to be worth approximating in a headline ("more than X") but too big to be counted exactly. Whereas all 23 people there, including the writer of the article, probably knew one another.
4 comments:
At 12:15 PM,Hm, this link is broken now.
At 4:48 PM,
Damn. And the link even works when I paste it on to the address line. It just doesn't work as a link. Ah, well. It was nothing the shake the earth.
At 11:55 AM,
The link's back working. & don't be too cynical about the "crowd". That almost half of N.Z.'s population.
At 1:25 PM,
I wasn't really being cynical, but the writer was having fun with the typically small audience anywhere for poetry, and I couldn't help but laugh. As if the number was big enough to be worth approximating in a headline ("more than X") but too big to be counted exactly. Whereas all 23 people there, including the writer of the article, probably knew one another.
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