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One Hundred Years on Stilts: While Seeking Eschewed Natural Grammar, the Grey Lady's Headline Readers are Bereft of Comprehension Why is the New York Times inc
by Drbble 15y ago
One Hundred Years on Stilts: While Seeking Eschewed Natural Grammar, the Grey Lady's Headline Readers are Bereft of Comprehension
Why is the New York Times incapable of writing headlines in one of the variants of English spoken on Earth?
- tokenadult 15y agoWhy is the New York Times incapable of writing headlines in one of the variants of English spoken on Earth? But the New York Times headline writing style is a variety of English, familiar to English-speaking readers of newspapers. As I wrote earlier in response to a similar question, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358744 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358744 "Newspapers all over the world use different grammatical conventions in headlines from articles. I read Chinese, and Chinese-language newspapers also have headlines that look quite bizarre in isolation. As the first kind reply here said, this convention probably began to save space for banner headlines in large type."
- Drbble 15y agoIn general, yes you are right, but NYT headlines are not Standard Headline English. They are bizarro convoluted long-winded show-off try-to-look-clever-by-overcomplicating English.