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Cringe car crash camera repair over at Linus Tech Tips
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tooki:
I’m pretty sure Howard means “a car crash [massive fail] of a repair of a camera” == really awful attempt at repairing a camera.


--- Quote from: Howardlong on September 24, 2022, 02:40:46 pm ---No, it was a "car crash camera repair".

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Repeating the wording that’s confusing people doesn’t help them understand it.
hans:
Ah now I get it |O . Something that's perhaps lost in translation as non-native speaker. Or even more likely the SRF of my brain is slightly deviate from others. No worries :-)

Regarding his display of skills vs the sales pitch, yes I agree. 4$ worth of parts and some tools! "I need this to work to get a video out of it". The different kinds of stress of a YouTuber  :-//
Someone:

--- Quote from: hans on September 24, 2022, 03:10:11 pm ---Ah now I get it |O . Something that's perhaps lost in translation as non-native speaker. Or even more likely the SRF of my brain is slightly deviate from others. No worries :-)
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Newspapers (and some people) seem to like making these inscrutable headlines that can be read n different (and misleading) ways. Its a "thing" and a quick way to filter out content that doesn't have much substance behind it, otherwise a plain headline would be inviting enough.

It was un-parseable for me too, despite being an English native.
PlainName:
Strange! I got it.

Clearly, it was cringe-worthy and the question then was if it was a car crash camera  (no - in that case it would be a dashcam) or car crash OF a camera repair. Since this isn't the Daily Wail it seemed to obviously be the latter.

I can see it might well fox someone who isn't au fait with English idioms. And perhaps copy editors.
tooki:
As a native English speaker, I had to look at it twice. The issue is that it’s ambiguous, and the unintended alternative interpretation is also plausible, since dashcams (cameras designed to film driving in cars, and which often use accelerometers to automatically save footage when a crash is detected) exist. Only once you’ve read beyond the headline can you conclusively rule out it being a video of Linus repairing a dashcam.

The other thing is the way the word “cringe” was used. In the past few years, novel usage of that word as an adjective meaning “cringeworthy” and a noun meaning “cringeworthiness” has become popular: “[thing] is really cringe”. (And it’s often hard to figure out whether it’s an adjective or noun.)

To my ear, that sounds really strange: I’d call those “cringeworthy” and “cringeworthy things”, respectively.

Also, “car crash” to mean “disaster” is more common in UK English, whereas in US English, we more commonly would call it a “train wreck”. So depending on one’s background, it might be less obvious what’s meant.
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