The New Yorker Does It Again

I gotta say this for The New Yorker—they use high-class English. Here’s a sentence:

There has been some pushback, too, from climate experts such as NASA’s Gavin Schmidt, who argues that the consensus figures are probably more likely to be accurate, and that any reëvaluation is at best “premature.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/what-stands-in-the-way-of-making-the-climate-a-priority

I’m not a fan of the false subject (There has been), but hey, they used a diaresis! They could have done what everybody else does (spell it with a hyphen—re-evaluation) but they didn’t! In English, you can use a diaresis when you need to pronounce two letters separately that look like they should be pronounced together. (I’ve mentioned this before; look up “diaresis” in the search box.)

Ahem. Regarding that false subject, they could have said, “Climate experts such as NASA’s Gavin Schmidt have given some pushback. He argues that the consensus figures are probably more likely to be accurate, and that any reëvaluation is at best ‘premature.'”

Harrumpf.

While I’m at it: another New Yorkerism—They spelled “NASA” with small caps, not normal capitals. WordPress doesn’t support small caps, so I had to change the text to normal caps. Sorry.