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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by nickrio on Sunday September 24, 2017 @10:35PM (#15327714)
TouTiao is a literal translation of Headline.

（头）Tou = Head; （条）Tiao = Line

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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by thaumasiotes on Monday September 25, 2017 @02:41AM (#15328486)
条 is a measure word for things that are long (rivers / snakes / pants), but it's not the word for line. The character most closely related to the concept is 线 xian, and 线 is indeed the word for "line" in many senses. In other senses, you find words of more than one syllable.
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Re:Paying top employees the highest salaries in the market by nickrio on Monday September 25, 2017 @10:36PM (#15335733)
Yes, it's not very accurate in term of word-by-word translation. Maybe it's for suiting the context and habits.

A strip (条) of news is works better than A line (线) of news in Chinese.

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