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Meta: I would suggest a title change on HN. Current HN title: "UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students" Article title: "U
by vinay427 5y ago
Meta: I would suggest a title change on HN.
Current HN title: "UBC Engineering removes online classes, obstacles for international students"
Article title: "UBC Engineering removes all upper-year online classes as obstacles remain for returning international students"
The shortened HN title, upon my first and second readings, implies that UBC removed obstacles for international students. In fact, the opposite is the case, as the article title clarifies.
- cowmix 5y ago+1
- ssivark 5y agoOr change the comma in the current title to a semicolon. It not a useless punctuation mark ;-)
- legerdemain 5y agoI'm afraid you have just demonstrated the only pragmatic use for semicolons outside the C family of languages.
- smnrchrds 5y agoHow do you separate lists of things that themselves have commas in them, if not with a semicolon? Example: San Francisco is home to law firms such as Campagnoli, Abelson & Campagnoli; Carlson, Calladine & Peterson; and Carter, Carter, Fries and Grunschlag.
- legerdemain 5y agoStyle guides for a number of other languages do it by treating organization names like titles or labels and enclosing them with quotation marks. Unambiguous!
- 8note 5y agoNested lists though x, y, and z; a, b, and c; and i, j, and k make common groups of variable names.
- jwmhjwmh 5y agoI use them fairly frequently; I find them useful for establishing a causative relationship between clauses.
- OJFord 5y agoAn attempt 'to verb' ('pun' or whatever you'd call it very much intended) 'obstacle' perhaps? They 'obstacled' the international students? Anyway, agree it's at best ambiguous.
- robertwt7 5y agoYeah lol this is so misleading.
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- belltaco 5y agoYour title is way too long for HN.