Writerly q: Guy writes headline, omits 'and'.

[Liar]

The article in vella's "Baby-sicle" thread made me think of something;

"1st U.S. baby reportedly from frozen sperm, egg born"

That irks me. Why is it not "frozen sperm and egg"? The only place I see where that word is ommitted, and consistently so, is in news headlines.

"Man falls from brigde, survives."
"Two killed, eight injured in bus crash."

Doesn't make sense to me. It's "bacon, sausages, spam and spam". Not "bacon, sausages, spam, spam". Right?

Explanation, anyone? Just for brevity?

 

[minsue]

The fewer the words the bigger the print possible for use? Or the more likely those of us with short attention spans are to actually read the whole thing?

 

[damppanties]

The article in vella's "Baby-sicle" thread made me think of something;

"1st U.S. baby reportedly from frozen sperm, egg born"

That irks me. Why is it not "frozen sperm and egg"? The only place I see where that word is ommitted, and consistently so, is in news headlines.

"Man falls from brigde, survives."
"Two killed, eight injured in bus crash."

Doesn't make sense to me. It's "bacon, sausages, spam and spam". Not "bacon, sausages, spam, spam". Right?

Explanation, anyone? Just for brevity?

I guess if they include three letters and a space, then they'll have to reduce the type size. And they don't want to do that. The bigger sized the headline, the more it screams I suppose. We live in a world of diminishing attention spans.

And don't mind me. I'm bitchy today.

 

[Liar]

The fewer the words the bigger the print possible for use? Or the more likely those of us with short attention spans are to actually read the whole thing?

They sould have just written ICE, ICE, BABY! then.

 

[damppanties]

They sould have just written ICE, ICE, BABY! then.

A story with that headline could be about music or Knut or godknowswhat.

 

[minsue]

They sould have just written ICE, ICE, BABY! then.

You're right. They should've.

 

[Liar]

A story with that headline could be about music or Knut or godknowswhat.

Don't tell me you call that music.

 

[gauchecritic]

The article in vella's "Baby-sicle" thread made me think of something;

"1st U.S. baby reportedly from frozen sperm, egg born"

That irks me. Why is it not "frozen sperm and egg"? The only place I see where that word is ommitted, and consistently so, is in news headlines.

If you add 'and' then you have to add another 'frozen'. No excuse obviously, but then the headline makes no sense anyway. It says an egg was born not a child.

They could have missed the 'born' and included the 'and' to make more sense. (and there should be commas after baby and egg anyway.)

 

[Guest]

The article in vella's "Baby-sicle" thread made me think of something;

"1st U.S. baby reportedly from frozen sperm, egg born"

That irks me. Why is it not "frozen sperm and egg"? The only place I see where that word is ommitted, and consistently so, is in news headlines.

"Man falls from brigde, survives."
"Two killed, eight injured in bus crash."

Doesn't make sense to me. It's "bacon, sausages, spam and spam". Not "bacon, sausages, spam, spam". Right?

Explanation, anyone? Just for brevity?

I'll bet it was for brevity.

But I wouldn't have caught the real meaning of the article from that headline.

Sloppy journalism.

 

[damppanties]

Don't tell me you call that music.

Oh, well. Noise. Dissonance. Something.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

"1st U.S. baby reportedly from frozen sperm, egg born"

You will now begin receiving hate mail from the ELA.
















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