• orangeJuiceBongo@lemmy.world
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        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?

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          2 years ago

          That makes the most sense to me: a relic from printed news that editors continue using in order to feel like editors.

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          2 years ago

          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.

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      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.

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      2 years ago

      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