Why Russia might become a super power again?
Headline writing from MSN. Definitely bad.
david_h wrote:Is part of the reason that much of the 'writing' many people now do is typing that follows conventions more like those of conversational, rather than written, language?
I think so. I also think it's normal. I don't have any problem with that in general - each of us does the best we can - but publications are a different matter.
Here's another headline today from MSN:
Why some people in California are straight up not showering
They seem to preface with "why" a lot, these MSN people.
With a nod to s1m0n's comment about grammar, you might be surprised to learn that I don't have too much problem with the above, given the decidedly relaxed climate of the news source. The headline's folksiness makes me imagine the reader in a robe and bunny slippers with a cuppa hot joe and dread for the day to come, as do many of MSN's offerings. Now given the sentence structure, I would have preferred to see a hyphen in this case: "straight-up" - but it wasn't my call.
Still, hyphenated or no, would I have written "straight up"? Nope. This is a matter of personal style in its context. Is it bad copy? I leave that up to you.
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