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Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
by jarin 16y ago
Admittedly, I haven't read the Chicago Manual of Style in a while, but when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes?
- semanticist 16y agoThe Register is a tech tabloid, not a broadsheet.
- JonnieCache 16y agoTo be specific, it is a kind of IT parody of The Sun, the whole style of it is one big injoke about british newspaper journalism basically. http://www.thesun.co.uk http://www.thesun.co.uk Their motto is: "Integrity - we've heard of it." Personally I love it, although its not as funny as it used to be.
- nitrogen 16y ago...when did it become acceptable to use "pwn" in a headline without quotes? The Register is sort of an IT tabloid, so one could expect them to be on the leading edge of using IT slang in headlines and articles.