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What an awful headline. It makes it sound like the India banned exports not to control domestic inflation but to deliberately deepen global food prices.
by unmole 4y ago
What an awful headline. It makes it sound like the India banned exports not to control domestic inflation but to deliberately deepen global food prices.
- mateo1 4y agoAt least they could do "India wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis". The way it is phrased now is ridiculous.
- kzrdude 4y agoDepends on how you read it. It's an abbreviated headline format, where important but small words are omitted to have a punchier and shorter headline. It's common with headlines like "<event> to <effect>". Like "rising interests to cause concern for home owners". I.e it's about causality/effect, not intention. To make it more explicit, what are the omitted words? Probably something like "[That] India bans wheat exports [is expected] to deepen [a/the] global food crisis". Or maybe [risks] or [could lead]?
- unmole 4y agoIndia wheat export bans to deepen global food crisis Same words but much clearer. The headline as it stands is just sloppy editing.
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- amriksohata 4y agomy thoughts exactly, the guardian are terrible for this too