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A comment on Maglev Train Seen Making Washington-to-Baltimore Trip at 311 MPH. Parent comment

Re:Maglev Train Seen Making Washington-to-Baltimore Trip at ... by caractacus on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:00AM (#8492463)
I understand the possible use of 'seen' in the headline but in this context it would be taken by most readers as 'observed'. Sloppy sub-editing at best.
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Re:Maglev Train Seen Making Washington-to-Baltimore Trip at ... by th0br0 on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @09:13AM (#8492505)
Not really... it's just a "form" of the subjunctive... "Maglev train _could be_/_would be_ seen making ..." You can leave the would/could be out from a stylistic point of view imho, but you normally don't do that out of context (as it is unfortunately done here)....
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