• visor841@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    To be fair, I imagine those rules were developed for use with physical writing, when minimizing space used up was more important. Nowadays, even as a native speaker these headlines just take extra effort to parse without much of a point.

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      1 year ago

      When poorly written or complex, maybe. I don’t know how often I’ve had to focus on a headline.

      Headlines are also written to be attention grabbing. I’d rather headline-specific grammar over clickbait. Maybe there’s a different attention grabbing technique, but for now I’ll gladly settle for headlines if given a choice.