Sloppy, annoying, or useful shorthand?
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:55 (eighteen years ago)
Oddly enough, I first became aware of this via The Onion! Since then I have discovered it is common practice in US newspapers and websites.
It seems wrong to me, as a British person. I am not sure that I have ever seen it done in a British publication. How long has it been in use?
― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 26 October 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)
it is disallowed by the ny times. it's kind of awkward, but not as annoying as a lot of other things i see in headlines (e.g. un-gerunded gerunds: "shoot suspect sought").
― tipsy mothra, Friday, 26 October 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)
Classic! I love an impossibly awkward headline. As they sing in Newsies, "If I hate the headline, I'll make up a headline."
― Abbott, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)
I like this, as a thing! And yes, the Onion has drawn so much humor out of playing with this.
INTERNET POSTER ENDORSES HEADLINE COMMAS, KUCINICH
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)
NEWSIES HATE HEADLINE, MAKE UP HEADLINE
TS: Capitalizing all words in a headline or just the first and proper nouns
― Abbott, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)
There's also the habit of not using verbs, which the Onion used to good effect in last week's IT ONLY TUESDAY headline.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)
I guess not all verbs, just forms of "be."
― jaymc, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)
WOMEN SHOPPING
― nabisco, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)
IT ONLY TUESDAY
ha that's pretty good
― sleep, Friday, 26 October 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)