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Could we change the title so it doesn't read like the German Interior Ministry itself was shut down?

• mdekkers 9y ago
  done
  • alnitak 9y ago
    Germain? Also, the wording is still ambiguous. How about this: "German Interior Ministry raids Indymedia and shuts it down"
• wongarsu 9y ago
  The title was a great example of misuse of the oxford comma. I might borrow that. (for reference, original title was "Germain Interior Ministry shuts down, and raids Linksunten.indymedia.org")
  • tallanvor 9y ago
    I wouldn't recommend borrowing this, because there's only two items in the list which would never include a comma before the conjunction. The Oxford comma is used in lists of 3 or more items. Also, it seems the person who posted this modified the title for some reason. The actual article title is "German Interior Ministry shuts down, raids left-wing German Indymedia site". We can probably agree that this title isn't great either, but it's far better than the hatchet job the poster did.
    • wongarsu 9y ago
      That's why I said misuse :) If you extend the list to three items, an oxford comma actually helps with understanding the sentence: "German Interior Ministry shuts down, brings charges against and raids Linksunten.indymedia.org" vs "German Interior Ministry shuts down, brings charges against, and raids Linksunten.indymedia.org". But in general it's just a really bad sentence no matter how many commas there are.