Submitted 1 day ago by Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Something like “Foreign ministers of Italy, France set to meet blablabla”. There’s just two parties being mentioned and yet no “and”. Makes me do a double take every time.
Asking because that’s not a thing in German and I’ve only started noticing it recently but since then I’ve seen it a lot.
Don’t know, I’m just here to state my absolute hate for the practice. Sure you don’t write " A and B and C and D", but “A, B, C, and D”. But " A, B" is absolutely awful.
As a non-native english speaker this headline format bothers me to no end. I guess the intention is to make it shorter but I simply just find it confusing.
I’m more used to it now but it still interrupts my reading flow because I anticipate that a third party will be mentioned and yet the enumeration stops after two.
It’s a very American style thing. UK English media don’t do this, and it always feels strange when I see it in US media
Weirdly, as a non-native speaker I find UK headlines even harder to read.
My whole life, yeah.
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IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
It’s a thing that comes from the era of printed newspapers. Every word took up valuable space and cost a lot of ink when printed on millions of papers.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 1 day ago
That’s interesting. Especially because like I said it’s not a thing in German. They used to use just an ampersand to be space efficient. I like those unique sorts of quirks. Reminds me of the “etaoin shrdlu” thing. Also no German equivalent.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Fewer letters might make room to use a larger type-size and still fit on one line. I don’t know, but maybe the comma only needed a half space, & the ampersand needed a whole?
I’m sure some meticulous German has calculated which letters are use most frequently, I wonder what “name” it would spell?
Serinus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We know it primarily from context switching. It’s a thing very specific to headline-speak
Ironically when looking up “context switching” I got programming results. Apparently Wikipedia refers to the language thing as “code switching”.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 day ago
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