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[Doseone]

Inserting a comma can make a huge difference to a sentence.

For example, a correctly placed comma in the following sentence would change the emphasis quite a bit...I helped my Uncle Jack off a horse.

 

[Over The Hill]

On the link there is a story "How the world's longest aircraft was built"

It is some little airship that is just about bigger than an aeroplane and about the third the size of the Hindenburg.
Surely the article should read
"How is this the world's longest aircraft"

 

[benb]

On the link there is a story "How the world's longest aircraft was built"

It is some little airship that is just about bigger than an aeroplane and about the third the size of the Hindenburg.
Surely the article should read
"How is this the world's longest aircraft"

It's currently the world's longest aircraft, no?

 

[Over The Hill]

It's currently the world's longest aircraft, no?

I guess that is what they mean but without the qualification it is rather misleading.
A bit like saying the Airbus A380 is the fastest transatlantic passenger plane when it goes at half the speed Concorde did it in. Surely a claim must be an all time claim.

 

[benb]

I guess that is what they mean but without the qualification it is rather misleading.
A bit like saying the Airbus A380 is the fastest transatlantic passenger plane when it goes at half the speed Concorde did it in. Surely a claim must be an all time claim.

Could definitely have been worded more clearly.
Pretty cool machine though.