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Is the poor punctuation in the title (the article's subtitle) deliberate irony? I realize that headlines don't follow quite the same rules as normal English, b
by Stratoscope 11y ago
Is the poor punctuation in the title (the article's subtitle) deliberate irony?
I realize that headlines don't follow quite the same rules as normal English, but the way it's written is a real mess:
> On dating sites, spelling, punctuation are judged
Why not use correct and easily understood punctuation and grammar?
> On dating sites, spelling and punctuation are judged
- daxelrod 11y agoNewspaper headline style often trades grammar for brevity to accommodate a small amount of space in print. Replacing "and" with a comma is a common convention.
- Stratoscope 11y agoI'm aware of that, but thanks for pointing it out in any case. It just seemed like an odd choice in a subtitle about punctuation.
- zobzu 11y agoits about ads prints, not about information or sense of any kind :)
- daxelrod 11y agoThat's fair. I'm guessing one of the following happened: 1. The editor rewrote the headline (this happens often) without considering the content of the article 2. Newspaper people are so used to their standards for headlines that they don't think of their style as bad grammar