Ukraine Says Behind Railway Blast in Southwest Russia (www.kyivpost.com)

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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

I'm not usually one to comment on headline language... But what the hell is this? I understand what it's saying after rereading it but goddamn, I've never seen worse headlinese

Was "Ukraine Claims Responsibility for Railway Blast in South Russia" a few characters too long?

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Why use many word when few word do trick?

[-] BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

Even then they failed by not dropping "says"

[-] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 7 points 7 months ago

Or "Ukraine Claims Railway Blast in South Russia"

[-] jwing@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

This is what happens when AI writes your headlines and articles. Welcome to the future!

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

Lost in translation.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I dunno, seems like a deliberate choice to me lol

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

It's the Kyivpost – they got Ukrainisms all the time.

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