• disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml
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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.