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As a Brit, I find the title of this really hard to parse. I was trying to work out if "toxic school supplies" was some sort of brand of jewelry or something. W
by rjmunro 7y ago
As a Brit, I find the title of this really hard to parse. I was trying to work out if "toxic school supplies" was some sort of brand of jewelry or something.
Why don't American's use an "and" here:
> Amazon must remove toxic school supplies and kids’ jewelry from US marketplace
To me, that's much clearer.
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- Majromax 7y ago> Why don't American's use an "and" here: Doing so is still standard American English. However, headline writing in particular has a tradition of extreme brevity, and this style leaves out conjunctions and adjectives (including articles). As another example of ambiguity, the article title here isn't explicitly clear that Amazon must remove these items from its marketplace. Read literally, "from US marketplace" could imply (somehow) the entire United States retail environment.