Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ...
by lufte on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:26PM
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Offtopic: I'm seeing a trend of titles that, as a non native English speaker, always confuse me and take me a good couple of seconds to finally understand. This is one of them. It's like they use a comma where I would expect an "and" to be. I wish I had more examples to show, but I have seen a lot here in HN. Is this some new editorial style or was this always used?
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Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ...
by timbit42 on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:30PM
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When you write a list of items, such as, "one, two, three and four", you use commas instead of "and" or "or" between each of them except the last so people know whether the rest are "and" or "or". In this case, "or" doesn't make sense so the comma means "and".
Re:Mom Handcuffed, Jailed for 8-Year-Old Son Walking Half a ...
by leephillips on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @01:31PM
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It’s a common style of telegraphic English used in headlines. In normal prose we would write “handcuffed and jailed”. I don’t think the style is new. In fact, as a native speaker, I also sometimes have to read headlines three times to figure out what they mean.