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'Headlinese' is the very elliptical syntax employed in headlines, captions, titles, signs and labels in order to save space and permit larger characters in display.
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What's better: enter or input?
Easy-to-use computer programs tend to have very short user instructions. Short prompts are often better than polite prompts.
Joel Spolsky (our host) has written an article about this. Scroll down t …
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Can the word "advantage" be used as an adjective?
Headlines tend to be short, instead of being fully grammatical sentences. This particular headline is not even literally true.
In this example, "Advantage" is not an adjective describing "Australia" …
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What does this phrase - headline means "Crippling cost of disparities"?
"Good and quick reading comprehension" is often called "speed reading". For purposes of speed reading, your level of comprehension of the headline is good. If you are not interested in reading about …
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Singular and plural form in a section title
If there is just one question, it is normal to just put a short form of the question in the section title.
If there is more than one question, Luke has three good suggestions:
Questions
<Topic> que …
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In which situations is it OK to omit articles in short sentences?
All three of these examples are correct. Here is an explanation for the difference between "Make a copy" on the one hand, versus "Add new task" and "Create project" on the other hand:
These command …
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