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Came here to say the same. Even the subhead reads, "...are causing the city to descending." I've worked in newsrooms and for media companies. Twenty years ago, this kind of thing simply did not happen at a magazine like AD.

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When I see these errors I assume they've outsourced content creation to non-native speakers. Perhaps this is unfair, but it is my immediate assumption. It could just as easily happen when someone heavily edits their text.

Why would anyone use non-native English speakers? There are plenty of low wage countries where English is the dominant language (e.g. India, Philippines, Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia, Belize, Puerto Rico) or at least very popular (Central Europe).

IMO it's far more likely that they laid off their copy editors in the way that tech companies are so fond of laying off their QA staff.

This is exactly the kind of English usage I see in content produced by some of those countries. Even on packaging, I find these errors. The worst is in adverts for English language education programs.

color me shocked the quality of content goes down when you cut the budgets to the staff to the levels that any journalism outlet has endured. add on top of that the ever increasing desire to be "first" to report, and the editorial review become nothing. hit post, and "we can edit after", but getting release first if much more important.

"our data indicates overt typographical and/or grammatical errors increase engagement" /s

>A scientific journal suggests that the city’s 1.68 trillion pounds of buildings are causing the city to descend, in some neighborhoods faster than others

I think this is grammatically correct.

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