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n. - Using the abbreviated style of front page news writers.

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  • More modest use of headlinese can convey a more conversational and engaged tone and the like.
  • In particular, if the conventions of headlinese allow you to omit certain material, you must.
  • The Columbia Journalism Review even published two anthologies of ambiguous headlinese in the 1980s, with the classic titles "Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim" and
  • The simplifications of headlinese eliminate all sorts of clues to structure and meaning, forcing the reader to fall back on context, background knowledge, plausibility,...
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