You’ve seen those headlines in the papers more times than you can keep track of. And it’s always the same nonsense. “Real crisis in Madrid”, how many times have you seen the word “real” used ambiguously in a sentence about Real Madrid? Doesn’t it make you sick? Sick to see such abominable journalism? Such inexplicable lack of creativity? Such appaling use of language recycling? I’ll tell you the first time I saw it I thought that’s not too bad, very obvious but fair enough. But I later discovered that I would be fortunate enough to see it every goddam week!

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