As a native speaker, I also didn’t really get the headline at first
I’d normally interpret “taking the knife to something” as roughly the same as “making cuts”
But graphene doesn’t make the fairphones and doesn’t support them, so nowhere to really make cuts
I feel like maybe they got the message that people are getting tired of headlines over using terms like “slammed” and wanted to do something different but chose a pretty terrible alternative.
As a non-native speaker, I had no idea what this headline is supposed to say. Here is what it is about:
As a native speaker, thanks for clarifying.
I thought it meant that they started investigated porting GrapheneOS to Fairphone. That they meant a surgical knife and getting to work.
Yeah, I tend to over-interpret and am non-native too, how could you tell?
I am a native speaker and this was close to my first interpretation. The headline is just bad.
As a native speaker, I also didn’t really get the headline at first
I’d normally interpret “taking the knife to something” as roughly the same as “making cuts”
But graphene doesn’t make the fairphones and doesn’t support them, so nowhere to really make cuts
I feel like maybe they got the message that people are getting tired of headlines over using terms like “slammed” and wanted to do something different but chose a pretty terrible alternative.
At least we all know what “slammed” means now.