You only use a comma when listing 3 or more items. Milk, eggs, and cheese. Saying “milk, cheese” is lazy and just reeks of a writer who thinks they’re too good for the rules.
Maybe to keep word count lower?
This is it, even though it’s completely unnecessary.
It’s not permissible in regular English grammar, but it’s used in headlines, which have somewhat different rules. I’d guess that you’re not a native speaker – I used to hang out on /r/Europe a lot, which had a lot of people who spoke English as a second language, and they had tons of people saying that they couldn’t understand newspaper headlines.
The comma after Facebook is really pissing me off.
Yeah, this seems to be a thing a lot of news headlines do. So annoying
Maybe bc I’m not a native speaker but I don’t get it. Is a comma equivalent to an ‘and’? This is how I read it anyway.
And it is indeed super common in headlines. Maybe to keep word count lower?
That makes the most sense to me: a relic from printed news that editors continue using in order to feel like editors.
You only use a comma when listing 3 or more items. Milk, eggs, and cheese. Saying “milk, cheese” is lazy and just reeks of a writer who thinks they’re too good for the rules.
This is it, even though it’s completely unnecessary.
“the rules”?
You do know there is more than one style guide right?
It’s not permissible in regular English grammar, but it’s used in headlines, which have somewhat different rules. I’d guess that you’re not a native speaker – I used to hang out on /r/Europe a lot, which had a lot of people who spoke English as a second language, and they had tons of people saying that they couldn’t understand newspaper headlines.
That’s pretty standard formatting for a headline.
Replacing an “and” with a comma has been a headline style for like a century. I like that it reads like a professional headline.
Sorry we can’t do talk more normals for ya