I wasn't blaming anyone but thought it was fun to share that it was that one missing word that you could normally drop from a sentence turns out to be essential

I wasn't blaming anyone but thought it was fun to share that it was that one missing word that you could normally drop from a sentence turns out to be essential to avoid leading people down a garden path here. I think HN should totally update the limit to something like 160 characters. Many headlines except the most click-baity ones ("Sun to explode tomorrow!") exceed 80 characters.