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  • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Petty pedantryEnglish
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    2 days ago

    not how colons work

    You had me scanning the image (of text without alt text: bad, OP! BAD!) for a : pretty hard until I settled on The New York Times message

    Breaking News: Susan[…]

    for a while. Had me wondering how else The New York Times is supposed to write that, because it looks correct.

    This is why quoting exists.