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Why?

• isoskeles 8y ago
  I feel like I've been tricked into reading the same sentence twice. My precious time has been wasted. (I'm half-joking.) In the case of this article: > A house is an investment, except it’s also a necessity, and it’s also an expression of status, which together make the investment wildly expensive and illiquid. This sentence exists twice. Why include it as a header? The sentence is long enough and this isn't poetry, so it is fair to assume the repetition wasn't for any sort of artistic effect. Just leave that sentence within the context of the paragraph where it's written. Maybe even bold it, but the reader shouldn't have to look at those words twice. I can maybe understand it when it's a quote from another person, under some arbitrarily small word count, like ten. I assume there are some rules in journalistic writing that allows for that style, such that it's normalized to the reader.
  • function_seven 8y ago
    Those aren't headers, they're pull quotes. Badly formatted to look just like a header. Also, I hate pull quotes for the same reason you do. I can't not read them, and half the time they're something I already read, half the time they're something I'm about to read anyway. I just don't see the point.
    • asdff 8y ago
      Pull quotes don't belong on the web. They made sense when people were thumbing through magazines, not lists of website headlines. If I click your headline, I'm already going to read the article.