• Ech@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    It’s confusing to see which words are left out in some titles. I’ve often wondered if there’s any sort of style guide for article titles.

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      7 months ago

      It’s a remnant of when they had text size constraints in print media. Sot sure if there is a style guide so to speak but I think they used to concatenate sentences as small as possible while still conveying the authors intended meaning.

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        7 months ago

        …while still conveying the authors intended meaning.

        The headline writer failed then.