"Danger time for America" and "Dangerous time for America"

[GoodTaste]

What is the difference between "Danger time for America" and "Dangerous time for America"?

Danger time sounds as if being an immediate danger...... I am not sure

 

[emsr2d2]

What is the difference between "Danger time for America" and "Dangerous time for America"?

Where did you see those phrases? You must cite your source.

"Danger time" sounds as if being it's an immediate danger. I am not sure.

Note my corrections above. There's no need for more than one full stop at the end of a sentence but you definitely need one! If you were trying to use an ellipsis after "immediate danger", you got it wrong. Not only does an ellipsis not really work there but it's made up of a space, three consecutive full stops, then another space.

 

[GoodTaste]

Danger time for America is the title on the cover of The Economist, Jan.14, 2006
The subtitle reads: The economy the Alan Greenspan is about hand over is in a much less healthy state than is popularly assumed

 

[emsr2d2]

"Danger time for America" is the title on the cover of The Economist, Jan.14, 2006.

Thank you for providing the source. Please remember to do this in post #1 in future. Always put quotes in quotation marks. You failed to end the sentence with a full stop again!

The subtitle reads no colon here "The economy the Alan Greenspan is about hand over is in a much less healthy state than is popularly assumed".

See my notes above about quotes and closing full stops. Are you sure the original said "the Alan Greenspan"?

Remember that headlines and captions aren't always full grammatical sentences. As complete sentences, the headline and your suggested alternative would start "It's" and "It's a" respectively.

The main difference is that "It's a dangerous time for America" would mean that "dangerous" is the current state but "It's danger time for America" (especially given the subtitle) means that a time of danger is coming.

 

[GoodTaste]

Are both "danger time" and "dangerous time" standard English?

 

[emsr2d2]

In context, yes.