• Axolotl@feddit.it
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    3 天前

    Can journalists learn to fucking use commas and full stops again??

    Edit: I can’t understand whatever is written
    “…Trump left her for dead on a plane he thought…”
    What does that even mean? Can someone explain?

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      3 天前

      “X did Y on a Z he thought would explode” is an efficient sentence but I can understand the grievance, because reporting should be clear and not take shortcuts. I think oxford commas should not only be obligatory, but enforced by a special linguistics task force with MP5s and tactical gear.

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        3 天前

        After reading a bunch of comments and using a tramslator i understood what it meant, the main thing that made it hard to read for me was “left her for dead on…” i never saw such a phrase and it doesn’t help that English is my 2nd language and my primary one is Italian which has a different way of composing sentences

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      3 天前

      Karoline, Leavitt, will leave, her position, as the White House press secretary, at the end, of this month.

      Christopher Walken