• smock9@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    It does appear in the body of the article but in what I read as a positive usage

    the New Horizons spacecraft that aced a close approach with Pluto while sending back fantastical images of the otherworldly orb and its moons

    But adding it to the title does seem to make it into a derogatory use.

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      5 days ago

      fair point, i did not catch that, but it is still not the same.

      you can argue that the images sent back remind you of some tolkien illustrations, the same argument is significantly harder to make about “fantastical nasa mission”. or maybe the forbes author just doesn’t care about nuances 🤷‍♂️

      i still think that OP’s edit is journalistic eh… reposting malpractice 😆

      i’ll leave this here for anyone willing to dive into the rabbit hole - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/417796/fantastic-and-fantastical