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[–] manxu@piefed.social 40 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

That was one labored sentence! I cannot be the only one that parsed it as: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO (while) most allies (are) to join mission ..."

Instead, it wants to say: "Trump says he's been rejected by NATO and most allies (in his desire for them) to join mission ..."

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, this is awful. Headlinese is fun and all, but this is too much.

[–] Jimbel@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The comma is for enumeration and not for segregation of two sentences. So it makes sense. They just used a comma instead of an "and".

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 8 points 15 hours ago

Yep, both is possible, "and" is less ambiguous.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

News title grammar has distinctly different rules from normal language. Extreme brevity and using commas in place of any other punctuation are typical of it.